Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constitutional Flop. In far-off London, the House of Commons showed its alarm. Nigeria, more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria...
...junketing gumshoes have been out of school." (Cohn and Schine are both 26 years old.) The Schnuffler telephoned Washington frequently, interviewed scores of anonymous Germans and Austrians, refused all social overtures of the press. Though reporters were startled, Cohn remained cool and collected when his wristwatch alarm went off in the midst of a Vienna press conference. By then it was almost time for the Schnuffler to leave Europe, and U.S. Information Service employees could go back to getting some work done...
...words were hardly out of his. mouth when farm-bloc politicos began trumpeting the alarm. Benson, they said, was "leading down the road to disaster"; his stand "could wreck agriculture." Washington buzzed with the word that Benson's head would be first on the chopping block in the new Administration. Benson was new in politics; he was amazed at the attacks. But since then, with his mail running 16 to 1 in favor of his stand, he has stuck to his free-enterprising guns-at least in principle. The day-to-day struggle that centers around his office...
Longfellow never wrote it, but he owed the great-great-grandfather of Charles Gates Dawes a poem. On the night when Paul Revere "spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm" between Charlestown and Lexington, William Dawes was rousing the sleepy colonists between Boston and Concord. In recent American history, the Dawes name has been hitched to three things-a pipe, a plan and a peppery phrase. The pipe was a low, underslung affair that traveled the smoke along a 15-inch channel, the plan was a reparations agreement that helped put Germany on its feet...
...only added to the mystery. Menzel sharply criticizes the Air Force for the shrouds of secrecy with which it has enveloped its Project Saucer. By using such methods as instructing people who have seen "saucers" to remain silent about their experience, it has only added to the state of alarm...