Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...
Over Time. In Baltimore, Penitentiary Warden Vernon L. Pepersack suspended a prison guard who went on duty in his wall sentry booth carrying an alarm clock...
...dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...
Hives Ready to Swarm. Knox's humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
...searches for something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms ("Passionate love even for a man's own wife is also adultery") leave her in such a state that "at night you can hear her brain ticking like a cheap alarm-clock...