Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warn her of radiation, Mrs. MacDonald has a portable Geiger counter linked to a detector tube in the garden. When the counter sets off an alarm bell, Mrs. MacDonald will go to her shelter, taking the counter with her to connect up inside so that she will know when the area is clear of radiation and she can safely...
Kaishek; the President's affront to Chiang through his order "neutralizing" Formosa; MacArthur's own flying visit to Formosa, and the Administration's alarm that this would be construed as U.S. acceptance of Chiang...
...only three have the intercontinental bombers. The rest of SAC's groups are equipped with World War II-type heavy bombers, now known as mediums. There are eight groups of Boeing B-29s (which SAC pilots used to call "mouse-powered," and their 2,200-h.p. engines, "dollar alarm clocks"), and there are three groups of their beefed-up postwar cousins, the Boeing B-50s. The mediums can't fly from U.S. bases to Russia without elaborate aerial refueling,* but they could shuttle devastatingly between Britain, Russia and the Middle East...
...east coast the Communists mounted a heavy counterattack and drove the South Koreans back four to seven miles. This week the Reds had fought to within 2^ miles of Pohang, and although the enemy pressure there was stronger than anywhere else on the front, no great alarm was registered. Said General Walker: "It is my belief that the over-extended enemy is making his last gasp...
Visiting Firemen. In Syracuse, N.Y., John F. Blomberg and William S. Klinke of Central Islip, N.Y., delegates to the State Volunteer Firemen's Association convention, pleaded guilty to a charge of turning in a false fire alarm...