Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty corny. But it was hot and loud and Hollywood cafe society couldn't get enough of it. Last week, the Firehouse Five Plus Two was packing Hollywood's slick Mocambo one night a week with four-alarm crowds. To the Firehousers' chief, Ward Kimball, the explanation was simple: "After bebop, jazz sounds solid and melodic. Maybe that's why people are ready...
...Stunned by the dreadful roar of the collision, Mrs. Evelyn Mc-Tootle, proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in an alarm. Mrs. McTootle did as she was told, then filled a cooking pot with water and made for the wreck...
...down Italy, newspapers carried the alarm: the old philosopher had collapsed. His daughter had rushed to his bedside, and so had such friends as Alessandro Casati, a leader of the Liberal Party, and Enrico de Nicola, ex-President of the republic. For two days Italians waited, then breathed with relief. Philosopher Croce had called for his manuscripts, said he wanted to get back to work. Though his doctors insisted that he keep on resting, they thought that for the present the danger was over...
Fire fighters stood in the intense cold outside the looked Eliot courtyard gate, blocking Memorial Drive traffic for 15 minutes before they learned that the one alarm fire had been extinguished. The blaze did no damage, and no one knew how it began...
S.M.U., which also boasts credit courses in weightlifting, badminton and the modern dance, heard rumors last week that the rival University of Texas was stealing a march by offering a course in lariat-throwing, but there proved to be no cause for alarm. Higher education in Texas had not yet advanced that...