Word: alarmistic
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...third and by far the preferable reaction is not acquiescence, nor is it the rabid, alarm-filled articles that have come from many sources. Possibly there was a need for the alarmist cries a few years ago, when the danger of reckless investigations had just become apparent. But too often the cries have turned to cliches; instead of pointing to danger, they minimize it by their tired aspect of "cry wolf...
MUST LOOK AFTER THE QUEEN, headlined News of the World, biggest weekly newspaper in the world (8,230,158). The alarmist stories in London newspapers came flying back to Australia with the force of a well-thrown boomerang...
...York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, no alarmist, was alarmed. She wrote: "At a moment when Europe's inclination to relax has received such encouragement from Moscow, the talk of slowdowns and cutbacks reported from Washington is the height of folly. More, it is dangerous and irresponsible beyond belief...
...wish to be an alarmist, but these space travelers are going to bring an end to the world for the simple reason that they are overlooking a principle of physics familiar to any high-school boy, i.e., "action equals reaction." . . . The same principle would be involved in a space ship leaving earth. Smalt as it would be in relation to the earth's mass, the rocket blasts would be sufficient to knock the earth slightly out of kilter in the delicate balance between centrifugal force and gravitation which now keeps our planet from either whirling loose from the solar...
...said, gives correspondents a jail sentance of up to 6 years for issuing "alarmist" news. While in Monte Video he found out what happened last summer to the man who was then head of the Associated Press in Argentina...