Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business must be bold, said Mr. Truman. The one major cause for alarm was an 18% decline in 1949 in domestic business investment. Said he: "There is no need for this decline to continue. There are immense opportunities for business investment. . . The enterprise and imagination of private businessmen will be a, crucial factor in achieving the upward growth." To provide encouragement, Truman planned to recommend changes in tax laws which would "stimulate business activity and yield a moderate amount of additional revenue." He was also studying "new devices for encouraging private financial institutions to furnish equity capital to small...
...soundlessly down hushed corridors on errands of the deep night. A nurse paused at a window, glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms and wards were 65 women and three men, all of them insane or suffering the gentle irrationality of senility...
...wanders down a U.S. country road this winter may be startled at the sight of a great white bird drifting close on five-foot silent wings. The bird's head is as big as a grapefruit, its yellow eyes glitter balefully. But there is no cause for alarm: it is only a displaced snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca), a refugee from a lemming shortage in Canada...
...castle, like the Lady of Shalott's." When his mother dies and he rides off to his Uncle Gerald's shabby farm, the boy's heart twists in fear. He remembers Gerald as an ex-army man, redolent of polished leather, who fills him with indefinable alarm. Nevertheless, at first the orphan is surprised and delighted with his new home, relishes its bouncy, athletic regimen of icy morning baths and horseback rides. Gerald feels the boy a warm addition to his bachelor loneliness. But the novel's tone darkens, as if a psychic poison were seeping...
Nothing was found on the girls, who were the only ones left in Briggs on Thursday, and nobody tried to cash the check at a bank. Head resident Mrs. Mason Garfield called the whole thing a false alarm and guessed that the check "had probably blown away or been mislaid...