Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger generation can still raise hell. The significant thing is not that it does, but how it goes about doing it. Most of today's youngsters never seem to lose their heads; even when they let themselves go, an alarm clock seems to be ticking away at the back of their minds; it goes off sooner or later, and sends them back to school, to work, or to war. They are almost discreet about their indiscretions, largely because (unlike their parents) they no longer want or need to shock their elders. The generation has "won its latchkey." It sees...
...city's quietness surprised Cambridge police, who laid the cause to the 9:30 p.m. curfew for children under 16, and the vigilance of 50 Boy Scouts who patrolled fire alarm boxes...
Once this story spread through the high schools, carloads of teen-agers cruised slowly along Strasburg Avenue every night. Sure enough, there was an eerie knocking from the direction of the rear fender. The girls squealed, and clutched their dates in pleasurable alarm...
Other reigning queens: "The Apple of Our Eye" (the apple industry), "Maid of Cotton," "Miss Alarming" (alarm systems), "Miss Beautyrest" (mattresses), "Girl We'd Most Like to BEE With" (honey), "Girl With the Best Connections" (electric appliances), "Miss Aluminum Stepladder...
...drowsy sentry is no worse sentry than the one who maliciously cries wolf, shoots up the coconut trees, and keeps the camp in a state of alarm and confusion...