Word: alarmist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarmist reports to the contrary, West Germany is merely going through an essentially healthy process of deflation, not a slump. Would prosperity continue? Says Erhard: "I'm dead sure...
Except for Roman Catholic opposition on the detail of birth control information, the report was received last week with general acclaim in Britain. It has cleared the air of alarmist thinking, avoided absurd excesses of "population planning" (see cut) and made a start toward public policy on a problem that faces many nations-how to induce the more intelligent groups to have enough children to reproduce themselves...
...single aspect of the entire affair. Even though it has been discredited in Washington, the report was written and sent to the House Committee. It shows that the House Committee's business has a lot more to do with your business, and your roommate's business, that most non-alarmist people probably realized a few days ago. And anybody who could help the House Committee to extend its business in this way automatically discredits himself as a political figure, at least among those people who object to House Committee investigations of the Thomas variety...
...over the world. As people grow more numerous, the soil they depend on grows poorer & poorer. The low point has almost been reached in the Near East, where man-made deserts occupy large areas that were once fertile and populous. Like most conservationists, Osborn is something of an alarmist. He tends to underestimate the ability of modern agricultural science to revive maltreated soil, make deserts productive by irrigation and increase crop yields by fertilization and better farming methods. He doesn't think much of the tropics, though modern methods can make tropical soils produce large amounts of food...
...Alarmist. In Bloomfield, N.J., Charles Wilhoft, who had installed fireproof walls and floors in his house, hose and water outlets, coiled escape ropes, escape hatches and ladders, self-closing, antidraft doors, fire alarms on the stairs, decided to install a sprinkler system, "just in case...