Word: alarmist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, gives correspondents a jail sentance of up to 6 years for issuing "alarmist" news. While in Monte Video he found out what happened last summer to the man who was then head of the Associated Press in Argentina...
...Alarmist Watchmen...
Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
...task force of mechanized Greek infantry, supported by tanks, field guns and fighter planes. Third Corps Commander Stylianos Manidakis broadcast a 24-hour "ultimatum" telling any Bulgars who might still be on Gamma to get off or be blown off. A team of excited U.N. observers sent an alarmist cable to New York: "Big forces ready for action on both sides . . . Very dangerous situation may follow...
...public schools have been traditionally classless and nonsectarian. To Harvard's James Bryant Conant, that is the way they should be. Last week, in an alarmist mood, he called the rise of private and denominational schools a menace to "our democratic unity...