Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influenza. The chances were that in most cases the disease was caused by the same virus that the Army's laboratories had isolated: influenza, type A' (pronounced, and often written "A prime"). If no other strain of flu virus shows up, there should be little occasion for alarm, since this variety of A' is one which rarely causes serious illness...
Initial press accounts mentioned that Conant was a stout Anti-Communist and had approved of a resolution to keep communists out of U.S. education. This caused some alarm in the academic community here, which feared Conant was an anti-communist of the McCarthy like. Latery reports clarified his position...
Cambridge police and firemen may win three extra days of vacation with pay by catching adult false-alarm pullers in the city...
According to the Council's recommendation, if the idea is adopted, any policeman, fireman, or group of officers who apprehend or "cause to be apprehended" any adult false alarm sounders will receive the extra vacation with...
...Where was the captain? No one knew. No alarm was given, no ship's officer appeared on the bridge to give the order to abandon ship or to stand fast. The purser told the passengers that the Champollion was aground off Israel, and that the city ahead was Haifa. "Everything is fine," he added cheerily...