Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department's Bob Murphy, arriving for Big Three talks in London, reported how wrought up the French and British were, President Eisenhower ordered Secretary Dulles to London forthwith. The Big Three found their roles ironically reversed. Two years ago the British and French had sounded the alarm at U.S. "sabre-rattling" during the Indo-China crisis of Dienbienphu. Then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had counseled the sweet uses of restraint and diplomacy. Now it was Eden's government that talked of military action. Now it was the British, despite their past jeering at Dulles' "brinksmanship...
After the first day's play, officials discovered that the Prentice Cup, which the American's had captured at Wimbleton in 1954, was missing. At first the cup's absence was called a mere misplacement, but as the series progressed alarm increased. At the end of the final day, the cup was still on the missing list, although tournament officials were confident of its return in the very near future...
...deterrent H-bombers in Britain and the U.S. As the Manchester Guardian put it this week: "General Gruenther's screen across Europe is too weak to stop an assault by Soviet forces in East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled his own unpopular conscription bill through the German Parliament, and he let it be known at week...
...polished wood pews, drably dressed Baits and colorful Asians in skullcaps and shawls, gawking at the 8-ft. statue of Lenin and reading Pravda, hushing attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal and oil industries. He promised to reduce the number of women employed as heavy laborers, and eventually to abolish heavy work for women altogether. The delegates hushed the quietest and then applauded the loudest, however, when Bulganin proposed a democracy-style election-year special...
...roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation approaches completion...