Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open Path. Against this background of alarm and recrimination, President Eisenhower spoke out in a calm and calming appraisal of the summit collapse. "In evaluating the results," he said in a televised speech to the nation, "I think we must not write the record all in red ink." The summit had brought about a strengthening of Western unity. "The conduct of our allies was magnificent. My colleagues and friends -President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan-stood sturdily with the American delegation...
Sharing India's rising alarm, the Ford Foundation last week put up $10.5 million toward a $100 million Indian government pilot scheme for the reshaping of the nation's agriculture. The plan will establish model farming projects in seven scattered regions embracing 10,000 villages and 1,000,000 farmers, with the aim of raising their food production by a breathtaking 50% in five years as an example to the rest of the nation. If the scheme works and its lessons are gradually applied to other areas, India's total food grain output should rise...
Ignoring the Risk. After the first flood of escapes was detected, the East German police took alarm. They pounced on trains and blocked highways, picking up every farmer they found. Two groups of audacious Volkspolizei even sneaked across into West Berlin to interrogate suspects. But at week's end, despite the rising risk, hundreds were still slipping into West Berlin every...
...personalities of politics make public affairs live. Who are they and why? Is it necessary to view them with alarm, or should we rather point to them with pride...
Just before last Thanksgiving, the Health, Education and Welfare Department caused a panic in the cranberry market by claiming that a weed killer improperly used in some cranberry bogs might cause cancer in humans. The widely publicized alarm left 66% of the '59 crop still on the market. Last week the U.S. swallowed the indignant growers' sauce, promised to pay $10 million in indemnities for the nation's unsold, uncontaminated stocks of cranberries...