Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughly. The passengers bolted awake. "Ladies and gentlemen," crackled the cabin loudspeaker, "this is Captain Ogg. We have an emergency. Our No.1 engine is uncontrolled. A ditching at sea is likely. We have a Coast Guard cutter nearby that is able to render assistance. There is no cause for alarm...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...
...fine coffee to the world, Colombia takes in a golden torrent of foreign exchange-$300 million in the first eight months of this year. As a result, Colombia should be solvent, sound and stable. Instead, after two years of political mismanagement of its income, Colombia is setting off economic alarm bells both at home and abroad. It owes the tradesmen of the world around $345 million, and has become the No. 1 collection headache for U.S. exporters. The debt has sapped the nation's credit, its currency and its reserves. "The Colombian economy," said a U.S. Government official whose...
Some business leaders still viewed that prospect with the kind of alarm that caused the market to dip after the Republicans lost the Maine state elections. "Venture capital," said one, "would crawl into its shell and creep away." Others shrugged their shoulders. "You might do better with Ike," said Connecticut's Richard G. Williams, major stockholder of the J. B. Williams Co., "but you won't go broke with Stevenson...
...onset of fear and alarm...