Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taillefer was leaving the third-floor chapel after noon prayers when he saw smoke billowing up from the new elevator shaft. He cried "Fire!" An alarm was sounded. Taillefer and the other old men had time to hobble downstairs. The 182 orphans on the east side held each other's hands in a human chain and filed...
...exhibition at Rome's fashionable Obelisco Gallery was stirring up some three-alarm excitement in Italian art circles last week. In a series of lurid, explicitly painted canvases, enterprising Artist Aldo Pagliacci, 38, had set fire to six of Rome's most famed and revered churches including St. Peter's itself...
...State Department man explained, unless you intend to say something new, in which case the speech should be submitted to an Acheson helper named Jeffrey Kitchen. Rusk had thought he was only restating the obvious, and was as surprised as anyone else when the British Foreign Office began expressing alarm, and the State Department issued a hasty handout saying that China policy is unchanged...
William J. Fulton, publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick's New York correspondent who "investigated Harvard" earlier this spring, noted with alarm that the college in the "green, pine-dotted hill" was flying the United Nations flag "with its spider web map of the world on a blue background...
...about 4:30 a.m., she had seen a Negro drive away in a grocery truck which had been parked near the Hawkins home. A truck had been reported missing by a grocery firm, along with Driver Willie McGee, who also had $20 of the firm's money. An alarm was sent out for McGee, a wiry, 31-year-old father of four. He was arrested the next afternoon and, according to a deputy sheriff, confessed to the attack. Two Negroes were found who said they had been drinking with McGee until 3 a.m. on the morning of the crime...