Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fire breaks out on the sixth floor of New Quincy, in the living room of suite 602, shortly after 5 a.m. The fire is discovered at about 5:20 by security officer John Breen, who places an alarm at the alarm box on Grant and DeWolfe Streets...
Ayub gave the hawks their chance in 1962 when he permitted the first genial gestures to Red China as a tactic intended to alarm Washington and halt the big U.S. military aid program for India that began during the trouble on India's Himalayan border. When U.S. diplomats protested, Ayub always maintained that his chaps were taking things a bit far and he did not really approve of their extreme policies. Since then, the chaps seem to have been able to develop a momentum for their policies -backed by an upsurge of national pride and jingoism as a result...
...student had written to Fr. Burke to apologize for dressing in a Bishop's costume at the game and "blessing" the Harvard team at halftime, after University officials expressed alarm and Dean Monro discovered the costume in his closet...
JULY 6--An explosion and three-alarm fire rips through the experimental hall of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, injuring eight Harvard and M.I.T. scientists and technicians and causing at least $1 million in damage. The explosion blew the roof off the circular experimental hall and severely damaged the bubble chamber then being filled with 100 gallons of liquid hydrogen...
...alarm of dedicated aficionados, El Cordobés' success has encouraged a group of imitators who threaten to transform bullfighting from a dramatic and highly emotional art into a crazy circus act. His imitators are even worse than he is. Significantly, one of them calls himself "The Disaster," another "The Assassin," and a third, whose outlandish caricature of the El Cordobés style has brought him warnings by bullfight authorities, fights under the name of "Little Banana." Last month at a town just outside Madrid, one young apprentice tried to introduce a new dimension to bullfighting by parachuting...