Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee says that the policy of having bomb shelters, or "life boats," "would full you into a false sense of security," and "would cause undue alarm." It is not possible for these effects to coexist since they are opposites. I would be interested to find out which the Committee really thinks would happen...
...following three articles, Richard Price describes what Cornell University has done in one Peruvian community to offset an anachronistic feudal system that may lead the country to revolution, and contrasts such modern changes with the ancient but prevalent custom of "trial marriage;" Renate Rosaldo views with alarm increased feelings of anti-Americanism in Ecuador; and Jack Stauder describes a way of life in the "hot country" of Mexico that has remained unchanged over the centuries. The writers were among eight Harvard and Radcliffe students who spent the summer living with and studying Indians in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico...
...fallout from Russia's 30-megaton bomb drifted eastward from Novaya Zemlya last week, few governments acted so elaborately unconcerned as the satellite regimes. But Eastern Europe's people showed their alarm by buying up prodigious quantities of table salt in the widespread (and erroneous) belief that a salt rub is the best protection against radioactivity...
...cloud crossing U.S. territory may or may not have lost most of its radioactive intensity. There was no immediate reason for alarm, said the U.S. Public Health Service, but the PHS is taking no chances. The unwelcome cloud, and all the clouds that may follow it, will be watched attentively. U.S. air, water, milk and other foodstuffs will be examined continuously for a possibly dangerous content of Soviet radioactivity...
Pacer's Strut. Nowadays, an American mother need not riffle through her Spock with alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer. When she begins walking around the living room sticking out her chest, mother should know that her daughter has merely caught a whiff of a booming mania, and that soon the child will become a drum majorette...