Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the reason for the Chinese attack in the east, the Indians have good cause for alarm. South of the NEFA lies Assam, with its oil reserves and potential hydroelectric sites. This land-locked area is east of East Pakistan, and is connected to the rest of India by a neck of land which in one place is only about 20 miles wide. If the Indians cannot stop a Chinese advance through the Himalayas, they cannot hope to stop it once it reaches the plains. From there, the Chinese could drive on to East Pakistan and close off Assam...
...Socialists is already strained by membership in NATO, which Nenni dislikes. To get involved in Cuba could be death to his center-left coalition regime; so Fanfani confined his comments on the U.S. action to such safe words as, "Italy judges as positive that, in a moment when loud alarms are sounded, the U.S. has requested the United Nations to intervene in order that the causes of this alarm might be eliminated...
...student body of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas read your article [Sept. 28] with considerable alarm. While your comments on the significant accomplishments of our former students reflected favorably on the quality of our graduates, your picture of our campus activities was, at best, rather distorted...
...this energy by its rivals causes no alarm at Thomas Nelson. Its management believes that the basic demand for the Bible, helped by the thousands spent in promotion by the five new publishers, will increase the market enough so that Nelson will sell even more RSV Bibles than it did as a monopoly...
...billion a year on research and development. Less than two tenths of a per cent of this money comes to Harvard, but even this fractional percentage ($20 million) has been more than enough to create circumstances where the University community has expressed interest in, and in some cases, alarm over certain aspects of the Federal Aid Program...