Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarm fire sent clouds of smoke through an apartment house directly across from the College Observatory on Concord Street. Among those fleeing the blaze, which was confined to the basement, were the Massachusetts' Governor's sister, Marie Dever, and several families of University employees...
Otto Oldenberg, professor of Physics, said last night that the snow which fell in the Cambridge area this weekend quite likely was radio-active, but that there definitely was no cause for alarm. Before radiation could approach a dangerous level, it would have to be increased by an enormous factor, he said, commenting "Students needn't worry about taking precautions at this time...
...opposition to the New Deal never wavered. He distrusted big government, viewed with alarm the growth of executive power and centralized bureaucracy. He liked to recall the days (1777-91) when Vermont carried on as a free republic, coining its own money and keeping 10,000 British redcoats at bay, until at last it voluntarily entered the Union under the Federal Constitution. "Any attempt to break down...that Constitution," he orated, "excites me to battle...
Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...
...Vancouver Sun agreed: "Most Canadians share his complaint." Toronto's Globe and Mail said: "It was refreshing to have an outstanding business leader facing the facts, realistically appraising them and then putting his views clearly on the record." The Toronto Telegram called the speech "the loudest, clearest alarm bell that any Canadian has sounded since the outbreak of the Korean...