Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman who heard the crash of glass spread the alarm, and within minutes a dozen policemen surrounded the gas station and reportedly found Stroebel inside...
Like a modern Paul Revere, the taxpayers' federation loudly sounded the alarm. Led by Boston's Post, the press took up the shout. Riding the hubbub of popular anger, Congressman Christian Herter, Republican candidate for governor, dashed off a series of open letters to his Democratic rival, Governor Paul Dever: widespread "dismay and disgust" cried Herter, made it imperative for Dever to call a special legislative session to repeal the "sneak" benefits before they went into effect. The Republican case is somewhat hurt by the fact that the state senate which approved the pension bill is controlled...
Dress Rehearsal. In Bristol, Pa., Fire Chief Clifford Hagerman was inspecting a fire box when he accidentally set off an alarm, was on hand, red-faced, when 20 firemen in three pumpers and one ladder truck screamed to the scene...
...found grass and weeds flattened in a rough oval area as if a heavy wind or weight had crushed them. The Beacon, after assuring itself that Squire had a good reputation for veracity and reliability, decided to issue its state-wide call for a saucer-watch. To spread the alarm further, the Beacon wanted the Associated Press state wire to carry it. The A.P. stuffily refused, giving the off-the-cuff explanation that flying saucers, like a golfer's hole in one, should be verified by at least two people...
Washington planners like to describe the lagging arms program with such euphemisms as "shortfalls" and "slippages." Last week, in issuing a public alarm on the state of aircraft production, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson used some plain, unvarnished language (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The fact was that even after the Administration had scaled down its arms schedules, it was still failing to meet its goals...