Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damned as rich reactionaries, they could at least be branded as fascists. L'Humanité delightedly front-paged a story claiming that one Frenchman had discovered an ex-Gestapo torturer among them. More purposefully, Hungarian-speaking comrades were smuggled into the camps to spread tales of alarm. They told refugees that they would get lower pay than Frenchmen in any job they were given, that if they accepted work at all, they would lose their refugee status and any chance of moving to another job in another country, that all the young men would be drafted into the Foreign...
Going Wild. John then put his highly touted intelligence to work, scouted around for a likely target. "I deliberately selected a small bank that wouldn't be crowded, and where there wouldn't be an electric-alarm system," he said. He chose the small, upstate Richmond (111.) State Bank, borrowed his father's -45-cal. and a neighbor's car, drove to Richmond. In the middle of the day he walked calmly into the bank ("I wanted to be fair, so I didn't wear a mask"), vaulted the counter, flourished...
When the guided missile whistled into everyday military planning, the brainy brass of the U.S. Army whistled in low alarm. If nations were going to fight wars by trading off hydrogen payloads, then the Army was going to have a hard time justifying a budget for a 1,500,000-man ground force and the armament that goes with it. The Army's answer was to lobby hard-on contradictory lines: 1) the world will probably succumb to an atomic stalemate, hence the U.S. will need a conventional army which for maximum efficiency will need...
Both freshmen agree that the system is useful during exam period, and that "It requires strength of character and a loud alarm clock to follow the rigid schedule...
...internal emotions. As a technical framework for the disorders resulting from excess stress (or from faulty adaptation to normal stress), he has constructed the general adaptation syndrome, or G.A.S. Under this theory, the immediate response of the human or any other animal to a challenging stimulus is the alarm reaction-the mobilization for fight or flight marked by drops in body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar. This first or shock phase may last from a few minutes to 24 hours; before it is over, the body mobilizes for counter-shock with an increased supply of ACTH from the pituitary...