Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles south of Newport when she took the explosion at 6:20 a.m.-on the way from refitting in Norfolk to her home base at Quonset Point, R.I. As soon as the alarm was flashed ashore, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station rounded up all helicopters in the area and began a ship-to-shore ambulance service. Fires were under control by 8, but as the carrier glided up Narragansett Bay at 12:30 p.m. for her homecoming, rescue parties were still prowling through the blackened compartments, and the dead, shrouded in white blankets, were spaced across the hangar deck...
...your article . . . you describe the reaction to the explosions in terms of public alarm and handwringing. Here in the Pacific proving ground, you would find people from two laboratories working together effectively and in friendship. Of these two laboratories, Los Alamos scientific laboratory is senior. . . You mention only the junior partner, the Livermore branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, with which I am connected. . . You gave to our laboratory the kind of publicity which is most welcome . . . but you did not mention the great accomplishments with which Los Alamos is starting its second decade of existence. The spirit...
...leadership in world politics. Admitted the leftist New Statesman & Nation: "By this impulsive gesture, Mr. Bevan has postponed-possibly forever-his own chances of succeeding to the Socialist leadership." "It is the future existence of the party itself which is at stake," said the Times in alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ...
...love with the psychoanalyst's colleague (Mai Zetterling). Meanwhile, he has stumbled into more serious trouble. An international spy ring has stashed the stolen plans of a secret weapon in the heads of the dummies, and when two spies are killed in Danny's hotel room, the alarm goes out for the "redheaded ripper...
...body is not in the Paris morgue, and, most unnerving of all, it shows signs of life. Ravinel receives letters in Mireille's handwriting and learns that she has registered at a Left Bank hotel. Even proud, logical Lucienne reacts with a look of stupor and alarm to the baffling news, but expresses a violent professional conviction: nobody could be alive after 48 hours under water. The guilt-stricken Ravinel takes it harder; he is convinced his wife is a ghost, and he goes to pieces puzzling over how Mireille can be dead and alive at the same time...