Word: alarmistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before taking stock of "our financial fire-fighting apparatus," Mr. Gay declared: "I am not an alarmist but we should not close our eyes to the inflammability of the materials we are dealing with and to the fact that inflation, if it should once get started, might sweep through the markets as fire sweeps through a city of wooden houses...
Despite the alarmist tone evident in news despatches from Europe, no immediate crisis is likely. No matter how many men Hitler may press into the German army, no matter how large an air force he may have created, even so mad a fanatic as he cannot seriously contemplate taking on France, Italy, Russia and Britain at the same time. It is thus of paramount importance that these four nations make known their stand at once; otherwise, as Karl Radek recently pointed out in "Izvestia," Hitler may well take Europe's fate into his own hands and initiate another phase...
Amid near panic in Berlin, rumors festered so thick that Alarmist Johannes Steel, Foreign Editor of the New York Post, fairly dithered: "The fortnight following Jan. 13 [date of the Saar plebiscite] may be the bloodiest two weeks in the history of Germany. Riots, executions, wholesale imprisonment involving 10,000 to 15,000 men and women, with possibly civil war, will sweep that unfortunate nation from its Baltic coasts to the banks of the Rhine...
...certainly have no wish to appear an alarmist, hut I think the people should be told that this epidemic might become a serious thing. It appears that as influenza is passed from person to person, it becomes more and more deadly. . . . Since it appears that it increases in virulence as it travels, it should be brought home to every sufferer of the disease that for the community good, as well as for their own good, they should take every precaution to prevent its spread...
...even from the mouths of these obscure individuals was alarmist Dr. Wirt able, on the stand, to substantiate his lurid allegations. None of them had actually told the 60-year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been...