Word: alarmistic
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...short, one of the oldest of axioms about Soviet Russia remains very much in force: Moscow will move in anywhere it can find an opening, provided the risks are not too great. Showing symptoms of an alarmist view of Soviet intentions, the U.S. reacted strongly last week to the possible establishment of a Soviet submarine-servicing base in Cuba, a development that has been watched for months. A White House official said that the U.S. views the base "with utmost seriousness" and "at the right moment will take the action that seems indicated." Such tough language seemed to be dictated...
...whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets." Perhaps that picture, originally drawn of 19th century England, is too extreme, too simple, too alarmist. But if we are not yet two nations, surely we are in the grip of two realities...
After a torrent of alarmist anti-Pill testimony at Senate hearings earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Ad ministration published the draft of an elaborate warning to be inserted in each month's supply of contraceptive pills...
...bountiful. In fact, the supply of both land and resources is finite. Martin Litton, a director of the Sierra Club, says: "We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones." Litton reaches this alarmist conelusion: "We've already run out of earth, and nothing...
...take an alarmist of Chicken Little proportions to discern that bits of sky were falling on the Nixon Administration. The Haynsworth case, the Green Beret debacle, disarray in the Justice Department, the Republican loss in a congressional special election, bitter debate over Viet Nam-all at once all the news was bad. Yet somehow, Nixon seemed unconcerned and aloof from it all. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief, found that attitude perhaps as alarming as the events themselves in the most trying time Nixon has yet had in office, and offered this analysis...