Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house and hammered on the door. When Mensinger opened it, Ellis killed him with a shotgun blast, pumped out three more shots and then circled around to a kitchen window. Mensinger's 24-year-old wife was at the telephone, baby cradled in one arm, sending an alarm over the party line. Ellis fired again, killed her and wounded the baby...
...nista militia got its first important workout during last September's abortive military uprising. C.G.T. Boss José Espejo shouted the radio alarm. On cue, workers rushed to the presidential palace; in the suburbs drivers jammed their big diesel buses across roads by which troops or tanks might have moved on the capital. After the revolt was snuffed out, "special mission'' groups of workers' militia swung briskly into action, rounding up and arresting suspects, running spot checks for illegal arms...
Minneapolis Tribune Editorial Writer Carroll Binder, U.S. member of the subcommission who has fought similar U.N proposals, resounded the silly note in the new one. Said he: a newsman who ordinarily covers the White House could refuse to report on a three-alarm fire because it was "not dignified" for him to do so. Binder also argued that the whole attempt to write a code was "futile," since few of the countries involved could agree on what press freedom means or even what the "public interest" is. Nevertheless, the code was halfheartedly voted. Binder and the British representative refused...
...They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning. But when he tried to report it, his two-way radio wouldn't work; it took him precious minutes to call off the chase for the Oldsmobile and change it to a dark...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan launched an all-out search for the killer. An alarm was flashed for the only known pal of Willie Sutton who is still at large-Frederick J. ("The Angel") Tenuto, 37, a scarfaced murderer who broke out of prison with Sutton in 1947. Police technicians began a laboratory analysis of a dozen threatening letters Schuster had received. Sample: "You won't have long to live. Willie has friends." A great many people immediately leaped to the conclusion that Good Citizen Schuster had been killed by Willie's friends...