Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Two Can Play (Kingsley International). Bangalangalang! It's the Mickey Mouse alarm clock. 6:30. Dad (Peter Sellers) slaps it off, rolls over, inspects the soft female back turned toward...
...that its pros outweighed its cons: it should be left on the market, but with a warning to doctors not to use it unless the illness was so severe as to justify the risk. Sales of Chloromycetin slumped, then gradually picked up until 1960, when a new flurry of alarm set off a second reevaluation. Once more, the FDA's expert advisers concluded that to take the drug off the market would bring death to more people than to leave...
...youngest son's imagination was captured by Glenn's flight over our part of the world. During the night, Roger's alarm clock woke all the household. Then he went outside, scanning the heavens, hoping for a glimpse of his hero. Of course, the fact that the capsule passed over Woomera and Perth (hundreds and hundreds of miles away from our place) didn't deter Roger...
...records came the file on James Hanratty, alias Jimmy Ryan. Mentally retarded from the age of four as a result of a World War II bomb blast, Hanratty had undergone brain surgery and electric-shock treatments, been in and out of reform school and prison. Out went the alarm to pick him up. One night in mid-October, police in the English coastal town of Blackpool on the Irish Sea nabbed him on a routine check of teen-age joints. Hanratty protested his innocence, but from a police line-up paraded before her hospital bed. Valerie Storie picked...
...listen,' I said in an urgent undertone, trying not to alarm the rest of the group. 'What prevents them from, say, setting fire to this tree and smoking us out like a nest of bees...