Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...
...then, she noted, there might be some cause for alarm in an absence of fear, since "so much of what the West has done recently has come from the impulse of fear...
...spectacle of newspapers expressing alarm at heavy government spending was not new. Still, the reaction against Ike's budget was so widespread that some Democratic partisans were quick to suggest a considerable disenchantment with the President. In Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, a Denver weekly, Democratic Publisher Eugene Cervi crowed: "Big business and its willing handmaiden, the fat metropolitan dailies . . . loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution...
...ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have stopped viewing him with sober-faced alarm. Said the Times last week: "Mr. Haley pounds his guitar without mercy . . . But there is nothing sentimental or morbid about his songs. His pelvis wriggles, not with care (as does that of his rival Mr. Presley) but with purest joie de vivre...
...varsity squash team picked up its seventh win of the season Saturday afternoon by solidly trouncing Army, 8 to 1. However, though the Crimson won by an impressive margin, there was some cause for alarm at the performance of the bottom four varsity players...