Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents with shotguns, dressed as hunters, stumbled toward the farmhouse at dusk, one carrying the other on his shoulders. Reaching the door, one shouted: "Open, quick! My friend has just been badly wounded!" Veran's wife opened up; the agents grabbed her before she could push an alarm button, let Lavalette and 14 more policemen in. Upstairs they surprised Monsieur Jean stuffing heroin into cellophane bags destined for the U.S., and also uncovered not the usual kitchen-sink and gas-stove rig for boiling down morphine but an ultra-modern four-room assembly line-"a veritable factory," cried Lavalette...
University Police arrived on the scene, but apprehended no one. The engineers turned off the alarm in a few moments, and celebration of Columbus Day continued...
...Cambridge crime wave swept on during the weekend, as a group of vandals turned in a false alarm in Winthrop House Sunday night...
Several Cambridge high school students had reportedly tried to crash a party, and when they were chased, pulled a fire alarm and eluded the pursuers...
Both Britians and Canadians and regarded the trip with apprehension. "The Queen must not come," warned the Toronto Telegram weeks ago. In London, the Times voiced its alarm that "an innocent life is at stake," while the tabloid Daily Mirror nervously raised "the spectre of a second Dallas." Prime Minister Mike Pearson accurately described such talk as extravagant and extreme. Yet this week Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who can normally expect a warm welcome almost anywhere in the world, begins an eight-day visit to Canada - and no one can be sure of her reception...