Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...false alarm, the fire being confined to some papers burning in a fire-place. Someone had reported that a mattress was burning when the first floor of Matthews became filled with smoke...
Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...
Like legendary Joe Magarac, the U.S. finds the source of its strength in steel. The average American is awakened every morning by a steel alarm clock, hops out of a steel-springed bed, shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real...
...husband told police that he was roused by an alarm clock Tuesday morning, and shortly afterward noticed that his wife was virtually lifeless in bed. He rushed her to the hospital...
...when a graduate school group invited as a guest speaker Dr. Harold Rugg, emeritus professor of Columbia University's Teachers College, whose left-of-cen-ter textbooks have long been stirring a storm in U.S. public schools. No sooner had Rugg appeared than-two Ohio newspapers sounded the alarm. "Marxian doctrinaire," cried the Ohio State Journal. The Columbus Dispatch echoed: "A defiant and unabashed radical." The newspapers needled Ohio Governor Frank Lausche into requesting a trustee investigation of the charges, and in short order the trustees issued their edict...