Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capitalizing on the low-income white voter's alarm at Negro unrest, Wallace won 30% of the vote in the 1964 Indiana presidential primary, 34% in Wisconsin, an amazing 43% in Maryland. Given a few major ghetto riots this summer, some rabble-rousing black-power speeches by Stokely Carmichael and a few more statements from Martin Luther King comparing the U.S. role in Viet Nam to Hitler's in Europe, Wallace might even improve on that performance. But he has failed to win the expected backing of Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox. Moreover, Wallace's favorite...
...tragedy-without humans. The suspect bundles were put in place and made to malfunction. The fire started. It remained invisible for five or six seconds and then came into view from Chaffee's seat. During the real fire, it was at this moment that Chaffee sounded the alarm. From then on, the pattern and intensity of the test fire followed almost to the second the pattern and intensity of the fire aboard Apollo 204 as reconstructed by scientists...
...Computerized operations for large departments, which would vastly increase the speed with which a telephoned alarm can be processed at headquarters and flashed to the squad car closest to the scene...
...sure what they'll be doing after Harvard." Second, Chayes feels that the notion that a person should expect to shuttle back and forth between government and private life "isn't too relevant." "The point of returning to private life," he explains, "is not to wait for some alarm to ring calling you back, but to settle down, adjust, and do some good work without worrying about your future in Washington...
...Some listeners," said Seamans, "believe there was one sharp cry of pain." Then radio communications went dead, and at 6:31:17-just 14 seconds after the first alarm-the cockpit pressure soared to 29 lbs. per sq. in. and the capsule ruptured. The astronauts suffered relatively minor burns; all three men were buried wearing full-dress uniforms complete with tiers of chest medals. The official cause of death for all three was listed as asphyxiation from smoke inhalation...