Word: alarmistic
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...been surprised by this curious retort? "Frankly," he said, "I expected the President to ask me some questions." Indeed, he waited for two weeks to answer the questions that were never asked, and then, when he heard nothing further from the President, he concluded that he had been an "alarmist...
...State Jean Villot, he functions as a kind of chief of staff to Pope Paul, overseeing and coordinating the activities of the entire Vatican bureaucracy, except in the area of diplomatic relations. Nicknamed "the Berlin Wall," he has the reputation of being authoritarian in administrative matters and an alarmist. Archbishop Benelli, conceded Hebblethwaite, was not personally wicked or corrupt but his chosen style of operation was "opaque and impenetrable...
Another rabbi, however, Henry Siegman of the Synagogue Council of America, warns against taking "the alarmist view" of Key 73. Writing in the current issue of the American Jewish Congress's Congress Bi-Weekly, Siegman doubts "that any significant number of Jews will be won over to Christianity by Key 73. Those few who will convert will do so because we have allowed Jewish life to become so secularized, so emptied of transcendent meaning, that some of our children will turn to Christianity and to other faiths in order to fill a terrible spiritual void...
...commission, which was headed by John D. Rockefeller III and included Congressmen, business and labor leaders and educators, was not so alarmist as some environmentalists. Rockefeller said that U.S. population growth "should be regarded neither as a crisis nor with complacency." Nonetheless, the commission warned that despite recent declines in the birth rate, "the baby boom is not over." An average of three children per family would mean a population of nearly a billion Americans in a hundred years...
With gun ownership rising steadily, the possibility of civil war is not simply an alarmist's dream. As of last April, there were more than 102,000 licensed firearms-everything from farmers' shotguns to automatic weapons-held by some 73,000 Ulstermen, practically all of them Protestant. How many additional smuggled weapons are being held illegally by both sides is anybody's guess. An immediate ban on all privately held firearms in Ulster is one of the twelve points advocated by British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson. The Labor opposition in Westminster has also been demanding that...