Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Alarm...
...through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
Time to Match. Reading the report last week, most Canadians agreed with the description of the friction. However, people on both sides questioned the tone of high alarm. The commission did most of its interviewing in the spring and summer of 1964, when tensions were still high after a tiny lunatic fringe of Quebec separatists had been bombing mailboxes and raiding armories. The situation has eased considerably since then. Lester Pearson has appointed more French Canadians to key Cabinet posts than any other Prime Minister, and made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada...
...Eastern plane had plunged toward the ocean eight miles off Jones Beach. It blew up in an orange ball of fire at water level, went to the bottom 75 ft. below. At Kennedy Airport the radar operators sounded the alarm the instant they realized that the blip representing Flight 663 had disappeared from their screens...
Within fifteen minutes after the alarm was sounded at 5:10, (the fire had been put out a half hour earlier with a bucket of water) the nine trucks (plus a couple of police cars) had the building surrounded. As a big hydraulic ladder crunched against the top of the building, two firemen rushed inside...