Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bishops of both the Roman Catholic and the Episcopal Churches in the U.S. spoke out solemnly last week on the world crisis-responding to the fact that, as the Catholic statement put it, "Once again in our time the alarm bell is ringing in the night." Both statements were remarkably similar in content. Both offered a powerful endorsement of the United Nations− certainly the strongest yet given by the Catholic Church in the U.S.-and in consequence they also provided a powerful moral boost to the crucial work of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (see FOREIGN NEWS). Both statements...
...story concerns a desperate robbery of Mappin & Webb, purveyors of glittering adornment to fastidious Parisians--and Montrealers and New Yorkers, too. Mappin & Webb shrewdly have taken the precaution of outfitting their Place Vendome premises with an alarm system, and it takes considerable ingenuity by Tony, Joe and Mario (who has been flown in from Milan for the occasion) to outwit the clever device. But they do, and they have some hot sparklers on their hands. Also a woman in Pigalle...
...time last week, responsible statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic feared that war was in the making. Messages of alarm shot between Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. U.S. armed forces were alerted-not because attack was believed imminent, but in case it was. Out of their mutual concern, the Western alliance, rent by the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, was put back together again. The price: an incomplete victory in Egypt...
Bell Rings. The alarm bell did not ring until after Britain and France had already agreed to a cease-fire in Egypt, in the face of the expressed disapproval of other principal allies around the world and a 64-10-5 vote against them in U.N. Israel too had agreed to a ceasefire, but was waiting to exact a victor's satisfaction from Nasser...
Then came reports of Soviet MIGs landing in Syria. The alarm faded in a few hours when intelligence officers concluded that Nasser had simply flown his Russian planes to Damascus to save them from destruction by the British and French invaders...