Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, like the rest of the Communist world, is having its troubles with rebellious youth. In Peking last week Communist Party chieftains were viewing with alarm a series of sporadic demonstrations, strikes and outcries among China's 70 million students...
While Food and Agriculture Minister Ajit Prasad Jain insisted valiantly that there was "absolutely no cause for alarm," planes airdropped rice to remote mountain villages. Grain shipments from the U.S. were stepped up to two shiploads every three days, and government officials announced that they hoped to get the U.S. to deliver all 3,500,000 tons of wheat in two years instead of three...
...sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool cut into the metal, there was something like an explosion. Compressed gas in the canister blew radioactive dust into the air and touched off the radiation alarm system...
...statement, Treasury Under Secretary W. Randolph Burgess was telling the Senate Finance Committee that a $2 billion to $3 billion budget cut would be "a sound thing." Next day Burgess hurried back to the witness table, cryptically called his variance with the President's views "a false alarm." Like his hair-curling boss, George M. Humphrey, the Under Secretary succeeded only in adding to the impression -valid or not-that the Administration is sharply divided on the budget...
Although investigators have no leads as to who might be responsible for the blaze, there were reports from passers-by that several children were seen around the building shortly before the alarm connected with the sprinkling system went...