Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each evening at 9:45 the alarm sounds in Lamont Library and 1,125 freshmen are left with virtually no place to study. The Yard dorms are crowded; between ten and twelve they are noisy. After Lamont, freshmen can do little more than chat with friends, wait for the milk and donuts vendor, and hope for a better day tomorrow...
Reflections in a Private Eye. In Milwaukee, after getting into a saloon argument with another customer, Paul Mumford, 24, flashed a tin badge, shouted that he was about to call the patrol wagon, pulled a fire alarm instead, was fined $108 when ten fire trucks rushed to the scene...
...countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added to their military power. Last week, just before the latest Ecuadorian cry of alarm, Peru announced that it had contracted for two submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp. and a score...
...evening, set up two inspection teams made up of their military attaches in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian capitals. By the following afternoon, the inspectors were scanning the border regions from the air. They reported no evidence of an unusual military buildup. But even if it was just another false alarm, many Latin Americans were happy to know that the Hemisphere's fire-fighting apparatus is in such good working order...
Neither Peru (pop. 9,300,000) nor Ecuador (pop. 3,400,000) can really afford to spend millions of dollars for warplanes, but a combination of alarm and national pride holds down public complaints in the two countries...