Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your articles on the John Birch Society and Operation Abolition with alarm. The Americanists and the House Committee on Un-American Activities show a backward trend toward McCarthyism. Most Americans are loyal to their country. They need rather to be reminded of the basic freedoms upon which it was founded. One of these is the freedom of speech, which includes the right to disagree with an opinion even when it is that of the esteemed House committee-without being classified as Communist or Communist-duped...
...automatic elevator stops with a jolt. The doors slide open, but instead of the accustomed exit, the passenger faces only a blank wall. His fingers stab at buttons: nothing happens. Finally, he presses the alarm signal, and a starter's gruff voice inquires from below: "What's the matter?" The passenger explains that he wants to get off on the 25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa answered Guatemala's proposal with a 22-page note to other Latin American governments. As usual there was a recital of U.S. sins -but this time the Cuban note was marked by what sounded like genuine alarm. The U.S., charged Roa, is giving all-out support to a new drive by anti-Castro Cubans to throw Castro out be fore the conference of American foreign ministers in Quito May 24. If that fails, Roa said, U.S. -supported anti-Castro forces would invade Cuba with the intention of setting up in a liberated section...
...Last week he picked up a Medal of Freedom in Washington from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
Among veteran observers of the Quadros mind, both in Washington and Brasilia, Jânio's actions produced more resigned shoulder shrugging than alarm. Jânio's motives, the experts believe, are threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least...