Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorizing the Central Valley Project, which was conceived largely as a flood-control, irrigation and salinity-control development in Northern California. But the powerful Pacific Gas & Electricity Co. correctly foresaw that the project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith Baxter, 26, a recent widow who was also something of an expert in publicity as well as a prime mover...
Having thus sounded U.S. Time's alarm bell abroad, Lehmkuhl also tossed a challenge at General Electric Co., now the leading U.S. producer of electric clocks. U.S. Time started turning out its first electric clocks last week, aiming at a total of 3,500 a day by the end of this month...
There is little enough cause for alarm, so manifestly grotesque has been the contrast between Khrushchev's extravagant protestations of affection for his Asian hosts, and his no less extravagant denunciations of the West; between his fantasies on the theme of Communist
...nearly resembles the Australian politico on the hustings that cartoonists often represent the one by the other. Last month, facing up to their fifth general election in six years, Australians wearily resigned themselves to a prolonged burst of cockatoo talk, and the sight of sulphurous crests raised in simulated alarm and indignation over the state of the nation. What they got instead was a beak-and-claw fight that made the political feathers fly as they had not done for a decade...
...artist ... as a symbol of the world's artistic unity." Thanksgiving morning was purely routine in the mansion of Washington's Hostess-with the-Mostes' Perle Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb'ned it all, graciously bade a happy holiday to her callers...