Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began recalling little things about handsome Captain Rodriguez, a colonel's son and a smart officer. They recalled how he had separated from his wife, and had taken up with an expensively beautiful brunette named Africa Peral Redondo, who was only 28 to his 40. Out went the alarm for the arrest of both of them. But this was nothing to the alarm that broke out when it was learned that Rodriguez and Africa had escaped to Paris, where Rodriguez was claiming political asylum as an anti-Franco refugee. He was merrily giving sensational interviews to anti-Franco newspapers...
...alarm went out all over France. Police began confiscating retail stocks, while local constables in remote hamlets rolled their drums to bring out the villagers, then solemnly read them a warning about Baumol. Jacques Cazenave, 52, director of the Daney Laboratory and father of two children, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. His explanation: One of his drug suppliers must have sent him arsenic acid anhydride instead of zinc oxide. But the next question on many lips was: how many babies in the eleven months since the death of François Lejeune had been hurt by the poisoned Baumol...
...robbers were like automatons. Each knew his purpose. One disconnected the the alarm system, another ripped out of the ledger the record of the day's receipts, the other disarmed the befuddled and disbelieving Brink's men, then tied their hands and feet with 38 strips of sash cord, gagged them with adhesive tape...
...with 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 dollar bills; they scooped coin from the safe. Police estimate their loot weighed 1225 pounds, taking more than 20 minutes to load into the truck. About 7:10 p.m. the truck roared off, and one of the employees managed to sound an alarm. Then started the largest police mobilization in Boston history; every bridge leading in and out of Boston was closed, F.B.I. men checked plane schedules, state police road-blocked all major highways. It was all in vain. There was no trace of the robbers...
...Last night," Collins said, "we were caught with our pants down when a tough fire broke out on Ashton Place while our trucks were down answering the false alarm...