Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noted with alarm that lawyers of "outstanding" reputations have recently been subjected to "severe personal vilification" for representing Communists, persons accused of being Communists, and racketeers. The house of delegates reminded the nation that 1) every defendant has a right to counsel, and every lawyer has a duty to give counsel "even to the most unpopular" defendant; 2) such representation does not mean that the lawyer shares his client's "views or character...
...space ship and move on. They do not want to encounter any human beings, who have not reached the advanced stage of civilization essential to such a meeting. The Martians' appearance-the face is a bare, embryo-like mass with a looming eye fixed in the center-would alarm the humans, and, as one of the characters in the picture says, "What men don't understand, they destroy." Thus, in order to go about repairing their ship, the Martians disguise themselves as humans, adopting the shapes of certain men and women in the vicinity...
...Kansas City, Mo., eight policemen charged up to the fourth floor of the Jackson County Courthouse when a burglar alarm was set off in the locked room housing top-secret documents of the Truman Administration. They closed in on the culprit: Harry S. Truman, who was still fumbling with his keys. Said the ex-President: "I thought I knew how these things worked, but I guess...
...just about to leave for the office when the telephone began ringing in his New York apartment. He picked it up offhandedly. A second later, listening to the voice of the strange man on the other end of the wire, he felt a shock of mingled hope and alarm. The stranger began by suavely explaining that his name was "Costapeter," and that he was just in from Rumania. Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu understood instantly. He had been stranded in New York during a visit in 1947 by Communist seizure of the Rumanian oil industry, had long since been an executive...
When a Louisiana federal court found the New Orleans Times-Picayune (circ. 175,000) and its afternoon sister, the States, guilty of unfair competition, more than 170 papers all over the U.S. viewed the situation with understandable alarm. The court had upheld the trustbusters' charge that the papers' unit ad rate (forcing advertisers to place ads in both papers if they wanted space in either one) was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act (TIME, June 9, 1952). Other publishers who also use the unit rate feared that the decision against the T-P and States would upset...