Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign of civil war between Ike and Congress. But House and Senate G.O.P. leadership patiently tolerated the bobbles, and helped Ike fix his system of liaison. When Congress began warming up to a reorganization bill which the President did not like, Eisenhower-without any public cries of alarm-sent clear word on what he wanted. The G.O.P. leaders, who might have squawked about getting the word so late, quietly shifted positions. Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft, billed as Ike's inevitable antagonist, has to date shown himself to be the Administration's dependable and loyal majority leader. White...
...Small Alarm. In Charlestown, Mass., when a fire trapped Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCarthy in their third-floor bedroom, he pitched an alarm clock through the bunk-room window of a firehouse 40 feet away to arouse firemen...
...hundred adults, and straight to the table up front. With the poise of a veteran performer, Mike perched himself on a stool next to Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, who asked simply: "Well, Mike, how do you feel?" The boy's answer came in a happy flood: "I have an alarm clock and I dress myself and my mommy loves me all the time...
...Smoker Committee also revealed plans for a raffle with an alarm clockradio as top prize. Several other articles will be raffled off, including a bottle of champagne, men's wear, and appliances...
...cars were for the few; mass production for millions meant a touring car and later a closed car, in which the whole family could ride for thousands of miles in comfort. Sports-car fans scornfully dubbed such cars "jelly molds." Even non-sportsmen have more recently viewed them with alarm. Complained the Automobile Safety Association's President Arthur Stevens: the U.S. driver is "submerged down behind a chromium-draped engine hood, wide, slush-holding fenders, and a sloping, glass, mud-gathering shelf called a windshield, that at times even a Mixmaster couldn't clean." The American Automobile Association...