Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer Philippines President Elpidio Quirino viewed with militant alarm the advances of Communism toward Southeast Asia. He called for a "firewall" to seal off the Red flame in China. In an address before Congress he asked the U.S. "not to tarry too long in the redefinition of fundamental attitudes toward Asia...
...veterans who will graduate this June have nothing to worry about, Monro said, because they can be in graduate school a full year before the clam is applied. Likewise, the 4,000 rate currently enrolled in graduate schools have no cause for alarm...
Hoping to "sound the alarm" about the continuing seriousness of appendicitis, Dr. Boyce has written a book, Acute Appendicitis and Its Complications (Oxford, $8.75). The first essential, he says, is still accurate diagnosis. And unfortunately, appendicitis does not always cause the textbook symptoms: e.g., nausea, pain and tenderness in the lower right-hand quarter of the belly. Pain may be felt anywhere in the abdomen, often above the navel, or even in the right shoulder. And appendicitis may hide under the symptoms of many other diseases...
...since the days of Napoleon had the schools of France been threatened with such an upheaval. In the press, oldtime maitres d'école and professors were quick to cry alarm. The government, cried one, "is trying to force the schoolteachers of France to teach according to a pedagogical system. The metier of a professor is a liberal metier and it remains with each teacher to organize his own system of instruction." By last week the whole affair had split France's educators right down the middle...
Because he knows of no objections by armed service applicants to the loyalty certificate's "informer clause," Navy Undersecretary Dan A. Kimball "cannot share the alarm asserted to be prevalent in Cambridge," Roy F. Gootenberg '49 1PA, chairman of the university American Veterans Committee chapter, said yesterday...