Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Japanese medical authorities were aware of what had happened, the fish in the Fortunate Dragon's hold had been sold to markets all over Japan. As the government tried to track down the dangerous fish, a wave of alarm and anger spread over Japan. The bottom dropped out of the fish market. Shops sold out their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there...
When the returns began coming in, however, the authorities recoiled in alarm. Count after count showed non-Communists beating out Red candidates, and the Party considered some of the winners positively dangerous to the proper dialectical conduct of the union. Abruptly, the East German trade-union secretariat broke off the balloting. Reasons: "infiltration of class enemies . . . carelessness . . . political mismanagement" of the elections-in brief, too much freedom...
...gold earrings. "The line of lawyers from which I spring weakened apparently by repetition, seems to have exhausted itself," he once explained, "and in a final spasm brought forth a kind of recidivist, throwback or survival of an imaginary golden and lawless age . . . But there is no need for alarm: the monster is amenable and responds to kindness...
Today the Harvard community stands, almost alone, as a final bastion of academic freedom. Amid the hoots and jibes of intellectual muckers and muckrakers, with the tocsin of false alarm gleefully tolled in state and national legislatures, each student must prepare himself to carry the weight of freedom. Harvard independence has been extolled by its alumni, exhorted by its deans, and recently received the accolade (if not the coup de grace) of recognition by Henry Luce...
Planned Economy. In San Leandro, Calif., after police stopped their car, two 15-year-old boys explained that they were heading for Mexico with $17, a bar of soap, a candle, an alarm clock, a bottle of whisky and a loaded 7.65-mm. pistol "for holdups when we run out of money...