Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire Alarm...
...little before 11 p.m., however, the blinking picked up again and was soon punctuated by the raucous blare of the Weld fire alarm which someone had triggered. All of Weld, more than a 100 students, emptied into Weld's open entrance where they were contained by proctors and a small battery of police...
...less efficient under nationalization. Wilson thus gave in to his party's left and showed that he no longer needs the twelve votes of the Liberals, who have opposed nationalization. But the price he paid may well upset Britain's touch-and-go economy, and will certainly alarm the businessmen on whom he depends to strengthen it. New figures last week showed that Labor has not yet closed the trade gap: it widened from $165,200,000 in February to $215,600,000 in March...
...device was switched on at 11:15. It seemed to be working well until it overdid its job, delivering more blood under greater pressure than DeRudder's weakened arterial system could handle. After a flurry of alarm involving hand massage of DeRudder's heart, this was soon corrected...
...music is often made up of electronic squeals, tics, toes, street noises and shaped silences-in a recent recital at Manhattan's Y.M.C.A., three musicians solemnly performed a modern work composed of exhaling in unison, slapping thighs, rhythmic stamping and throwing things. New dances almost always alarm the conventional, but more than a conventional change seems to have occurred with the frug and its successors-including the alligator, in which a couple lies down on the floor and starts writhing rhythmically...