Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a woman depositor came in, however, Hugh gallantly decided against holding her prisoner. Afraid she would spread the alarm after they told her to leave, the boys took what money they had collected -about $600 in cash-mounted their horses and galloped off. With the law hot on their tracks, they went first to Texas, then to Minnesota, and finally west again to the Little Rockies country of Montana...
...more carefree," the Prime Minister told the British Press Association luncheon in London. "What I wonder is whether they have realized the treacherous trap door on which it all stands. It is an alert that I am sounding; yet it is more than an alert-it is an alarm. We have never been beaten yet, and now we fight not for vainglory or pomp but for our survival...
...first time in months, the enemy negotiators showed some signs of irresolution, even of alarm. North Korea's General Nam Il complained that the U.N. was trying to impose its plan by threats, that the U.N. stand left no room for "negotiation." The Peking radio said the U.N. attitude amounted to a "sitdown strike...
...loud wail, scheduled for 10:20 a.m. today, all students are warned they must stay inside, preferably in a cellar, or go to designated shelters if they are on the streets. All vehicles must be stopped where they are, and their occupants or riders must head for protection. The alarm will last for ten minutes, until 10:30, but no one should leave shelter until the sound of the all clear--a series of short blasts...
...third alarm, at 5:15, was caused by a faulty sprinkler system in one of the University Press buildings on University Road near Battle Square. Fire trucks blocked Mt. Auburn Street for almost 15 minutes, while evening traffic piled up as far as the Lampoon building...