Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means; now he grasps faintly at U Thant's tactful straws. The Belgian government's resolution must have been considerably fortified by Mr. Tshombe's talk of "scorched earth" and his attempts to blow up several key Union Miniere installations. Even what M. Spaak describes as his "preoccupation," meaning alarm, with the more confusing aspects of the U.N. expedition (such as the presumed communications failure which led the casques bleus to take the city of Jadotville after U Thant's order not to, and Dr. Bunche's subsequent implied endorsement of that victory) cannot really deflect the growing tide...
Inside the probe, a built-in timer had been programmed to turn on the mam instruments at the proper time. But that time passed, and no report of action came over the probe's radio voice. Then, 3 hr. 20 mins later, the built-in alarm clock got I second chance. But this time also it failed to awake the probe's instruments...
Still the hysteria continues to mount. The alarm of policymakers on the one hand is matched by the enthusiasm and almost religious dedication of the "experienced". The latter group tones down its beliefs partly because of the present inadequacy of our vocabulary for describing such experiences and partly because of social fear...
Even the Chinese conquest of Tibet in 1951 had rung no alarm bells in New Delhi-and therein lie the real beginnings of the present...
Even Adenauer's firmest friends were alarmed to hear this staunch old democrat voice the essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets...