Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective: to set up "a system of alarm," so that neither power will be able to suddenly concentrate its forces for surprise attack. Should the Russians go along, the U.S. will propose that ground-air controls be applied to the entire world...
Someone told Joey, he raised the alarm...
...they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries free himself and send the alarm...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...
...abysmal depths are opening even wider. Last week the tabloid Daily Sketch's, circulation topped the 1,000,000 mark, a sensational rise of nearly 400,000 readers in little more than two years, based wholly on the paper's new diet of cheesecake, sex, crime and alarm-ringing political coverage. Last week Fleet Streeters also got the announcement of a new daily, the Sun. Said the Sun's prospectus, leaving no doubt as to what kind of daily it intends to be: "It will be lighthearted . . . We are not, unlike some publishers, trying to sell newspapers...