Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily coated with the stickier side of Barrie's charm. But for old and young alike, Peter Pan is most fun when it is pure fun. It comes into its own as a gaudy extravaganza about things that suddenly light up, crocodiles that have swallowed alarm clocks, houses that are slung together on the stage, pirates that fight Indians, children that can fly through...
...strange that Jack Grant made a trip back to the car to bring a heavy third suitcase for Mrs. Grant to take on the plane. It was his own rectangular yellow rawhide bag. Only he knew that it was crammed with an ingenious time-bomb lash-up-an alarm clock, a bundle of dry cells, a packet of matches and a folded rubber inner tube filled with gasoline. The clock was set for 2:30 p.m., when United Airlines' flight 258 would be about halfway to San Diego...
...least once a month, and twice a month in season, the magazine Vogue works itself into a well-bred frenzy over the American woman, clucking with dismay over her shortcomings, chirruping with alarm over her sluggishness, shrilly urging her on to greater & greater miracles of attenuated charm...
...might be illegal for RFC not to go through with its loan commitment. RFC was firmly of the opinion that with more capital Texmass would eventually get on its feet. At week's end, RFC was still prepared to make the "illegal" loan-unless Senator Fulbright raised an alarm loud enough to scare RFC into backing down...
...about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells the plant to wake up and start the business of flowering...