Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's attitude toward sports has been a source of alarm and depression to Harriet L. Clarke, director of physical education at the 'Cliffe, ever since she stopped teaching gym at Wellesley in '42. "It's a real crusade to scrape up enough people for a playday with another college," she said despondently, "and last year we had to cancel a swimming meet and a basketball game since so few girls have the incentive to get out there and fight for Radcliffe...
Despite the cries of alarm there was no indication that key official of the Western alliance were being fooled by coos from Moscow. In Britain, Sir Anthony Eden concluded that there has been some welcome relaxation of tension, but "there has so far been no modification whatever of Soviet policy." U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, joining Mendes-France in rejecting the Russian attempt to delay ratification of Western agreements on rearming Germany, said he had discovered no gentle conduct beneath the soft words. In his best Engine Charlie style, U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson...
...China in exchange for a Red Chinese guarantee to restrain the Viet Minh in tottering Indo-China. In the midst of the rumors. Senator William Knowland interrupted the McCarthy censure debate for a speech on foreign policy (see above). But as matters turned out, there was no cause for alarm: Mendès and Dulles quickly agreed that recognition of Red China was not one of the questions they would discuss...
...There is the inevitable alarm clock in the morning, two or three classes to attend, and then the rest of the day and evening to deal with. For most, this means study, study, and more study. Dormitory life has tended to break the monotony to some degree by affording numerous opportunities for bull sessions and the like. But this underlying theme is still generally the same. This type of life has its virtues, but there can be too much of a good thing...
...agreed-15,169 to 13,885-to authorize the city to hire cranky old (85) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a municipal auditorium and civic center. Chortled Wright, whose unorthodox and costly brainchildren of the past had set the city's officials to view him with alarm: "The people of Madison have demonstrated that politics...