Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went off (a hospital Jeep was due to pick the girls up at 6:30 to take them to work), and slowly ran down. After summoning her courage, the lone survivor wriggled free of her bonds. Stumbling over her classmates' corpses, too afraid to venture downstairs, she beat...
...scattered farms, and made up for it by frequent gatherings at taverns and hostels, where their gregariousness shocked visiting Europeans. Today, just when the affluent society should be on the verge of providing every American with as much or as little privacy as he chooses, there is more justified alarm over the state of privacy than at any time in U.S. history...
...strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note-had been largely foisted on the world by 80 years of resolute French misrule...
...magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken resistance against the real causes for alarm...
...lower court was "too lenient" in merely ordering Providence's Grinnell Corp. to sell three subsidiaries after it was found guilty under the Sherman Act of monopolizing a segment of the burglar-alarm industry. In such cases, the court suggested, the remedy should include continuing Government surveillance of the companies to police compliance with the decree...