Word: alarmistic
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...unfilled. During the three months immediately preceding the war, not one U.S. official spoke with United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser. U.S. Charge d'Affaires David G. Nes reported from Cairo that trouble was brewing, but later complained that Washington ignored his warnings and branded him an alarmist. Top-level responsibility for the Middle East was bucked from official to official. Nicholas Katzenbach looked into Washington's policy when he became Under Secretary last September, quickly passed the problem to Newcomer Eugene Rostow, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, who thereupon turned it over to a newer comer...
...Inside Report" occasionally suffers from the fault of making too much out of too little. Evans and Novak were plainly alarmist when they rather breathlessly predicted a "spectacular mass killing" to be staged by the Viet Cong in Saigon before this fall's elections. Yet it is the nature of their column to prepare readers to expect the worst. "It's been said of us that we seldom have anything nice to say about anybody," says Evans. "This is basically true. We are interested in arrangements, deals, quid pro quos. We try to shed light on the subterranean...
Ever since the far-right National Democratic Party won a scattering of local offices in West German elections last March, the French press has been running alarmist accounts of what it calls the rise of neo-Nazism. The biggest shocker to date appeared last month in Paris Match. Headlines blared: "These are the Nazis of 1966. Their success disturbs Germany. They have forgotten nothing. They have understood nothing." To prove the point, the magazine ran two pictures of young men decked out in Nazi regalia; in one they are saluting a bust of Hitler and in another, so the story...
...Heezen feels, points to a gradual weakening of the magnetic field, a possible prelude to a reversal in a few hundred to a few thousand years. This would mean a sudden increase in cosmic bombardment of the earth's surface. "I don't want to be an alarmist," he says, "but we may be next...
...British are coming!" cried an alarmist. "We invited them," replied the New York Yacht Club. And sure enough, there they were last week, slicing through the swells of Rhode Island Sound-two of the handsomest, most dangerous twelve-meter yachts to visit U.S. waters. Some time between now and the start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...