Word: alarmism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrong Number. In El Paso, Francisco Lopez, 21, fined $100 for turning in a false alarm, pleaded that he had mistaken the fire alarm box for a public telephone...
Pike caught Dr. Smith by transatlantic telephone before the conference had begun, and ordered him to erase the item from the agenda. Later proof of the laxity of British security gave Strauss ample justification for his fight. Nonetheless Lilienthal partisans were furious and still pooh-poohed the alarm...
Respect & Death. Even by Middle East standards, the campaign was rough. In the capital city of Beirut, ten people were wounded by a bomb. In Akkar, Mohammed's convoy was ambushed, and two men were shot. In alarm, President Camille Chamoun summoned the north Lebanon candidates to his mansion, to warn them that such violence must not take place on election...
...issue of India-more broadly the issue of seating neutrals in a peace conference among belligerents-caused some alarm among observers accustomed to agreement among the Western Powers. It dramatized what the Christian Science Monitor, on the one hand, called an "almost universal, really appalling decline of confidence in U.S. leadership," and parallel U.S. loss of confidence in her allies on the other. For most Europeans and Asians, the issue was their "realism" v. U.S. "rigidity." For most Americans, it was "firmness" v. "appeasement" of their allies...
...June. But even more worrisome was the fact that railroad stocks, which had been leading the market until recently, actually broke through their year's low. To the dwindling band of Wall Street theorists who still follow the so-called Dow Theory, that was an alarm signal. If the industrial index should also break through its 1953 low, that would be a "confirmation"-the official signal that a bear market had begun. This week the signal came-on opening day, the industrials plunged another 4.52 points and broke through the old lows to close...