Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fame. Under the tension, tempers rose: a Japanese official accused a Bulgarian wrestler of throwing a match to a Russian, who thereby beat out a Yugoslav for a gold medal; on British complaints, 15 boxing referees and judges were fired for incompetence; some U.S. officials and athletes wailed with alarm at early defeats. But not even the acrimony could obscure the brilliance of the athletes themselves in Rome...
Even this was too much for the Communists. It was window dressing, cried the Moscow press and radio, and beneath the smiling surface, sinister Vatican plots were being hatched. The Reds issued a four-alarm warning that priests, monks and nuns in civilian clothes had been detailed to mingle with athletes and officials from the Soviet and its satellites to persuade them to defect. According to Moscow's daily Trud, a special receiving center for defectors had been set up in a monastery outside Rome, and "thousands of clergymen and monks and young people from the lower echelons...
...National Security Agency prides itself on its secrecy and its security. Headquartered behind an electrified triple barbed-wire fence at Fort Meade, Md., NSA is the agency that formulates U.S. codes and tries to crack enemy codes. Behind the barbed-wire curtain last week hummed an unaccustomed turmoil of alarm: two NSA employees had disappeared...
...Moslem and European alike. On the coastal roads autos moved bumper to bumper with only an occasional armored car to serve as a reminder that this was Algeria and not the French Riviera. Then a wisp of smoke rising on the mountain behind Chenoua Beach raised a forest fire alarm. After beach police rushed off to the fire, F.L.N. terrorists went to work...
...protect themselves, some millionaires, like the movie-mogul Shaw brothers, reportedly pay regular tribute to the underworld. Others have bought barbed wire and snarling watchdogs. A few take the precaution of calling ahead to their destination whenever they go out, and if they fail to arrive on time, an alarm is sounded...