Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battalion of Marines is afloat in the Mediterranean, ready for any fire alarm. A battalion of Marines has just completed Arctic exercises in Labrador-for no one knows where Marines might go next. Besides the First Division in Korea, the corps has two trained divisions, each with its air arm, waiting stateside for trouble-the Second at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Third at Camp Pendleton (see color pages), Calif. Boot camps at Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego are hup-reeping steadily away at rebuilding civilian youths to the sunburned, stiff-backed Marine mold, and pumping them into the service...
...High Treason, the J. Arthur Rank people examine the problem of Communist sabotage in England and conclude that as long as Scotland Yard employs cool, resourceful investigators there is no cause for alarm. It is a solid suspense job which mounts to a fine climax, then closes with a wonderful burst of thin-lipped realism...
City Councillor Edward J. Sullivan will seek official praise for students' lamb-like behavior last night. Contacted at a false alarm on Dunster St., which brought out four engines and was the only disturbance of the evening, Sullivan said, "considering the circumstances, the students behaved very well...
...must be on our guard against "witch-hunting" and "book burning." In light of the above however, the CRIMSON would do well to follow its own editorial advice the large studies of this year's attempting to asses of McCarthyism of the single of the population. I view with alarm the continued tendency on the part of the CRIMSON editors to see a Man on a White Horse clattering down Plympton Street. R. G. Livingston...
Because of its central location in Cambridge, this station is the headquarters of the Fire Department. The Chief, John F. Collins, and his deputies have their offices there, and the Fire Alarm system centers in the building. All calls first come there and are then relayed to the station nearest the fire...