Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went the steeple, gargoyles and all, until a local paper reported the startling innovations. Then everyone awoke in alarm. "A sculptor who lets himself be inspired by the pitiful figure of Donald Duck is to be pitied himself," fumed the Rev. G. C. Foeken, one of the preachers at Eusebius Church, who had not heard about the lofty figures until the papers arrived. The Netherlands Christian Women's Association of Arnhem, 800 strong, demanded that town officials defend the "dignity of the steeple...
...become almost fashionable in Washington to worry about the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit, that longstanding cause of the U.S. gold outflow. Economists frequently deplore it, businessmen point to it with alarm, and the Administration itself has put some of its best minds to work combating it. Thanks to all the fuss, the balance-of-payments problem may no longer be such a worry. Last week Treasury Under Secretary Robert V. Roosa told the House Banking and Currency Committee that the U.S.'s payments deficit in the second quarter of 1962 was very much smaller than in the first...
...King-Anderson bill to provide hospital care for the aged under social security has disappeared from view. In its place last week appeared a bipartisan compromise disguised in the legislative equivalent of a newly donned jacket and a different style of hairsplitting. But though the disguise failed to alarm King-Anderson's friends, it also failed to fool its opponents-even if the clothes were a bit more conservative...
...view that because the Regents' official prayer is so brief and general there can be no danger to religious freedom in its governmental establishment, it may be appropriate to say in the words of James Madison, the author of the First Amendment: 'It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties...
Workdays, Ferkauf gets up before 7 a.m. without an alarm clock, prepares his own breakfast, then washes the dishes, using rubber gloves. No matter how far he must travel to inspect one of his stores, whether to Hartford or Harrisburg, he is always home before the children bed down. Only six nights during the past 14 years has Ferkauf spent away from home-and four of them were on a recent business jaunt to Italy...