Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view with alarm the Psychology Department's current crop of educated pigeons. Professor B. F. Skinner has spent the winter teaching his birds to play ping pong, tell time, and pick out tunes on the piano. He claims the experiment will help increase our insight into human behavior: what makes us suspicious is the speed and interest the pigeons have shown in their studies...
Jobless, speaking a strange tongue, crowded into miserable tenements, thousands soon turned up on the relief rolls, costing the city $15,600,000 a year. Their children crowded the already crowded public schools. With shrill cries of outrage and alarm, the sensational journals gave tongue, blaming them for every civic woe. Feature writers found them living five and six to a room, two and three families to an apartment, in cellars and abandoned stores, even in coalbins. The average Puerto Rican was pictured heaving his disease-racked body off the plane and heading straight for a relief center. More sinister...
...done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...
This was only a skirmish without blood in a cold war without fighting. Had it also been only an alarm? The West might never know; it had no choice but to take such threats seriously. But perhaps even more important last week than the safety of Berlin was a new attitude in Washington towards the safety of all Western Europe. An important conversion had taken place in the Pentagon, which had long taken a dismal view of Western Europe's defenses...
...boundaries of France. In 1931 he married Isabelle d'Orleéans-Bragance, the doe-eyed, lovely daughter of a pretender to the throne of Brazil. Fearing that the line might become extinct, Henri's father viewed this further inbreeding of the Orleans clan with some alarm; but in the next 16 years Henri...