Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Canaveral, scientists and engineers looked up in alarm from their instrument consoles. Five agonizing seconds passed. Then Carpenter, finally realizing what had gone wrong, reached up and fired the retrorockets manually. Says one man who was in the Canaveral control center: "When those retros fired, you could hear some loud sighs, people letting their breath out, and a 'thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another...
...alarm Cubans, Castro loudly proclaimed that "this revolution is not Red, but olive green." Behind the scenes, Roca's men quietly took over indoctrination of the army, and set up the G-2 security force. The original 26th of July rebels, many of them anti-Batista and anti-Yanqiii but Cuban nationalists all the way, bitterly protested the intrusion. In October 1959, a bearded leader of Castro's rebel army, Huber Mates, resigned, saying that "the hour is coming when anyone who does not commune with Communism has to leave or be accused of being a traitor." Castro...
...with the fourth section of Volume IV of Dogmatics. At his stucco house on Basel's Bruderholzallee, day begins around 8, when Barth's wife, or his longtime secretary. Charlotte von Kirschbaum, tiptoes to the phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes as a "constant of my existence." "When the angels praise God in Heaven," Barth once wrote, "I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen...
Goodbye, Vivienne. Lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 168 Ibs.) Author Fleming, 53, a product of Eton and Sandhurst and sometime reporter, editor, columnist and naval intelligence officer, began writing his giltedged Bonds in 1952 "because my mental hands were empty and as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married...
What in the world is going on? Millions wonder in rising alarm, then hear with horror that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, by fateful inadvertency, have ex ploded superbombs at almost exactly the same moment - one near the South Pole, one near the North Pole. The geostrophic jolt, statesmen grimly reveal, has knocked the earth 11° off its axis and, what is in finitely worse, has steeply deflected its orbit. In four months, scientists estimate, the earth will pass so close to the sun that the world will end in fire, and humanity will roast...