Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cause for Alarm? The stop order did not mean that every batch of vaccine will be fully retested. Instead, said Dr. Scheele, teams of experts from his service will fan out to the five laboratories still making the vaccine (California's Cutter Laboratories remained under ban and under separate investigation), go through them, examine their records, inspect their equipment and methods, and try to decide on this basis whether the vaccine they have shipped or are ready to ship is safe...
...that every batch of vaccine should be rigorously retested, even if this meant delaying the entire inoculation program a month, with the consequence that in many states it could not be completed before the polio season's peak. But Dr. Scheele was more anxious to reassure than to alarm. Although there is no apparent difference between the vaccine ordered held up and the 5,000,000 or more shots already used. Surgeon General Scheele insisted that "the parents of children who have received [the] vaccine this spring ... in the very best judgment of the Public Health Service . . . have...
...delivery room for her first baby while the nurse tries vainly to notify the father. Where can he be? Far from the hospital, he has just installed an ingenious electronic warning system in the house of a gangster. He and his criminal client are admiring it when suddenly the alarm sounds; a time bomb has just been shoved through a cellar window. At the very moment the doctor in the hospital snips the umbilical cord of the baby girl, the young father', sweating with tension, snips the bomb's wires and saves the gangster's life. This...
...nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about to hear a child of six recite...
Although three students have contracted the disease this year, Dr. Leon Ryack '35 has said that there is no cause for alarm. "In general, this has been a mild year as far as we're concerned," he said. More than incidental contact with the carrier is necessary for infection, he added...