Word: alarmist
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...Malaya, Singapore and the Indies, and when they did the defense would be a joint job for the British, the U.S. and the Dutch. His half-amused, half-horrified hosts asked each other: "Did you hear what that Dutchman said?" and word got back to The Hague that an alarmist admiral was disturbing the peace of the Pacific. Admiral Helfrich got a reprimand, almost had his career ended then & there...
Harvard is fertile ground for a reproduction in miniature of the chaos into which Greater Boston was thrown by the air raid scare of several days ago. And while the present tendency persists to laugh off the threat of enemy raids on the Atlantic coast as alarmist melodramatics, Harvard will remain vulnerable. It should be obvious that when even the experts cannot agree on the plausibility of such raids, the gamble is not worth taking...
Lewis Don Leet, crack Harvard seismologist, does not want to be an alarmist -but he does his duty when he sees it. In the closing days of 1940, two earthquakes shook solid old New England, which is far outside the zone of major quakes (TIME, Jan. 6). Property damage was small and casualties practically nil; in Peru, Japan or California, the shocks would have been dismissed as trivial. Last week Dr. Leet said they might augur worse shocks to come...
...realistic step toward adequate preparation for any national contingency," Wallace B. Donham, Dean of the Business School has requested information on the training and experience after graduation of 9,000 alumni of the School. Dean Donham stated that such a questionnaire should have no alarmist connotations. He also explained to the alumni that the information was sought on his own initiative and not at the request of any government agency...
...aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...