Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Istanbul, Turkey's President and Premier were standing at the airport. The honor guard was drawn up, the bands ready to play-but the Iraqi guests never arrived. In alarm, Turkish President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes took off for their capital at Ankara to consider their next move. Another pact partner, Iran, closed its border and alerted its army. But these were but feeble protective responses. Without Iraq the Baghdad Pact would be meaningless...
What awaits the summer student as he groggily stifles the alarm and stumbles out of bed? His stomach groans in protest of its fourteen hour fast. Food . . . must get something...
...clang of church bells broke the stillness over the vineyards and olive groves of Sant'Angelo in Villa, about 50 miles southeast of Rome. At the sound of the tocsin, villagers tumbled out of bed and, dressing as they ran, swarmed to the church, shouting threats. The alarm had been sounded by two early risers who had spotted the enemy on their way to work. The enemy: Parish Priest Andrea Tarquini, who, flanked by three carabinieri, had tried to slip secretly into the church to sign a document that the whole village considered an outrage...
...Swim. Eccentric Bernard Goldfine gets up late, drives around Boston in one of his two chauffeured black Cadillacs and constantly calls on the radiotelephone to the loyal women workers at his garment-district office with the false alarm that he will be there any minute. They know better, do not expect him until 6 p.m. when he usually begins the day's work, winding up with his office callers about midnight. No cheapskate, he hands out $50,000 a year to charities, spends untold thousands on legal advice...
...lack a few of the refinements of Rome's final decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. And, if you want to, you can buy for $275 a jeweled pillbox, with a built-in musical alarm that reminds you -but not too harshly-that it's time to take your tranquilizer...