Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger, even if there are only a dozen of them, because wherever there's a pimple, they'll scratch it into a rash." And it is not so much their numbers as their strategic placement and their high-handed use of power that gave cause for alarm. Comrade Foulkes, had he wanted to, could have called out the entire E.T.C. from every power station, plunging the country into darkness, halting trams and subways, paralyzing docks and factories...
Portable Escort. A tiny but clamorous siren for unescorted women to carry at night was put on sale by Dallas' Atlas Alarm Corp. Noisy enough to be heard a quarter of a mile away, the spring-powered siren is intended to scare off molesters and summon rescuers. Price...
...False Alarm. In Fort Worth, Claude Rogers was acquitted of drunken driving after he testified that his car had been zigzagging because he was trying to take off a boot that pinched, and that he staggered after his arrest only because the boot was half off his foot...
...President's memo did not specify any industries or any regions, but the South was certain that Ike meant New England, and Southern politicos rent the air with cries of alarm. "An invitation to corruption," Georgia's Richard Russell called it. "Creeping socialism," said Arkansas' Bill Fulbright. Georgia's Walter George, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, declared that it would be better for the Federal Government to pay unemployment compensation to New England's jobless rather than "to throw the economy of the nation out of kilter" by encouraging the expansion of industry...
Although the Roth decision affects some 350,000 federal employees, it does not mean 350,000 new jobs for Republicans. "It should not bring alarm to career employees and those in the competitive civil service," said Civil Service Commissioner George Moore. He had a warning for some workers, however: "I have been told of many examples of how federal employees are . . . sabotaging the aims and purposes of the Administration. I do not believe . . . the civil-service system [should] be used as a device for protecting those who seek to destroy the policies and programs of President Eisenhower...