Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans to publicize sleeping and study rooms in Longfellow Hall were also discussed at the Council meeting. The sleeping room provides cots and alarm clocks for girls who want to rest during...
...second incident occurred later in the evening when an unidentified alarm brought four fire trucks screaming to Adams House. The trucks left immediately after discovering that the alram was false...
Specialized Difficulties. At White Sands Proving Ground, where most U.S. rockets are put to the test, Von Braun's theories are received with a mixture of fascination and alarm. Most rocket engineers, even the hard-handed practical ones, are deeply moved by the idea of space flight. But when they look closely at Von Braun's proposal, each man sees the worst difficulties in the specialty he knows best. Propulsion experts, for example, know that they must baby even a single rocket motor. They hate to think of making 51 of them fire properly and at the same...
First to Go. In Portland, Me., Rookie Fireman Lawrence Hasson heard his first alarm, raced for the brass pole, slid down to the first floor, broke bones in both feet...
...concerns Richard Sherman, a married New Yorker whose wife is away for the summer. Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed even...