Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the smoke fumes were sucked into the steam tunnels, crossed Plympton Street with the prevailing currects, and appeared 20 minutes later in C-entry. Someone turned in an alarm...
...often feel that a checkup is incomplete without its routine ceremonial-daubing with salty goo, taping on electrodes, and letting the machine make wavy lines on squared paper. Confidence in this useful machine has gone too far, says Dr. Francis F. Rosenbaum of Milwaukee. Sometimes it sounds a false alarm, sometimes its "all's well" gives a false sense of security...
...force and navy planes flew low over the presidential palace and dropped leaflets announcing the revolt, an officer driving up to Campo de Mayo saw soldiers scuffling inside gate No. 8. He spun his car round, raced back to the capital with the second alarm...
...Interference with goal-directed behavior of an individual gives rise to the alarm reaction. If the interference can be successfully disposed of or avoided altogether, the alarm reaction will recede. However, frequently the source of interference cannot be avoided or eliminated. Under such circumstances, the sharing of anxiety with nonanxious or non-threatening individuals by means of communication becomes an efficient device for tolerating the impact of interference...
...them to draw up plans to remove at least part of their facilities to regions where power is more abundant (e.g., the Ohio River). As alternatives, he asked them to determine if the emergency could be met more economically by building additional standby steam plants in the Northwest. In alarm, Northwest Congressmen cried that the real solution is more hydroelectric dams...