Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead machinery. "Quick, Manuel, or we'll be caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel and pray in the driving rain...
...Commerce and Industry and several other similar books in which names often go that do not make the parent edition. For imitators who pirate his list for other books, Editor Sammons has devised a neat trap. Under every alphabetical division, he has a "burglar alarm," a fake listing of a nonexistent person with an address that leads right back to Who's Who's door. Pirates trapped last year...
...begins when Bogart starts to hustle Jennifer, while Gina bares some exciting intentions to her rival's husband. The four villains watch this game of amatory cat's cradle with alarm, and soon read into it a counterplot to deactivate the uranium deal. On the way to Africa, they decide to cash in the counterfeit count because he has sniffed out their game; but the ship opportunely starts to sink, the victim disappears overboard, and the seven survivors reach shore only to be seized as spies by the Arabs. In the end, the fourflushing foursome are clapped...
...Reason for Alarm." To the Eisenhower Administration's employment experts, the drop was an expected result of the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy. They saw "no reason for alarm." Last week they were following closely the changes in the rate at which unemployment is increasing. The rate of rise in new unemployment-insurance claims has been slowed during the last four computed weeks. In the week ending Feb. 6, the total number of claims rose 24,000, only 'one-third to one-fourth as much as it had been rising in earlier weeks...
...There was also trouble from another source last week. A three-alarm fire broke out in the News pressroom, sending 1,500 employees scurrying out on the street, and doing an estimated $300,000 worth of damage. But the News missed not an edition...