Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number required to get his proposal out of committee and onto the House floor. But opposition was stiffening for one compelling reason: even mild tinkering with the First Amendment is dubious business. Said the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church: "I take alarm at this experiment with our liberties. The Bill of Rights should remain unamended, for the rights are inalienable...
...several times a day in order to scan the system for trouble. But next year even this bit of manual work will be unnecessary, since the data processor in Weld will scan all three boards continuously and print out the information on ticker tape. It will also sound an alarm when any of the readings fall outside normal limits...
...Hematologist Dr. William Dameshek of the Tufts-New England Medical Center pioneered the concept of autoimmune disease. It has long been accepted dogma that in ordinary healthy immune reactions the body is using a birthright of every living creature. This is a set of biochemical sentries which raise an alarm when the body is invaded by a foreign substance, especially a protein, so that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will not damage...
Light in the Cupola. Russell and his 18-man team of homily-grits Southerners were not in the least concerned about the slow progress of the civil rights bill. But others were, and against a lowering backdrop of powder-keg Negro restiveness and growing white alarm, a sense of urgency has begun to pervade even the drowsy chamber...
...Harvard Police riot lights were blinking outside the Yard, and by 10:45 the last whimpering Freshman had retreated. Firecrackers exploded sporadically, and Thayer Hall residents who had been chased from their dormitory by a fire alarm broke into strains of "We Shall Overcome...