Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United Nations resolution condemning Soviet brutality in Hungary, might unduly alarm U.S. allies fearful of bilateral U.S.-Soviet negotiations...
...among the first to focus attention on the growing menace of diabetes and the role of obesity in shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when the post-World War II baby boom invalidated his forecast that the U.S. would become a nation of oldsters...
...many economists, alarm over automatic wage increases and administered prices and the cost-push inflation they cause seems exaggerated. They point to the absence of factors that produce a runaway inflation, notably a shortage of goods and an excess of money. The soft spots in the economy are expected to prevent major wage increases from spreading through the entire economy, as in the past, just as the ample supply of goods is expected to check overall price boosts. Last week outgoing Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Byrd committee probing Administration fiscal policies that the Administration's tight-money...
Today "the age that is waiting before" presses harder than ever on the crust of conservatism that has always surrounded Harvard with tradition. For several years college administrators throughout the country have been looking with alarm at the problems facing them in the next decade, when the now legendary deluge of "war babies" will flood admissions offices with applications for college entrance...
...accompanied by growth of the faculty. The Program for Harvard College has allocated $5 million for the establishment of about 12 new Chairs. But the junior teaching staff--instructors and teaching fellows--must also grow, and it is to this increase that the opponents of expansion point with alarm...