Word: alarmistic
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...calmly. Instead of sitting down, the unionists peacefully walked out. Instead of hiring strikebreakers, grizzled Harvey Firestone quietly shut down his plants. Akron remained a rock in the seething Labor sea during the eight weeks of negotiations which followed. There was no violence by 11,000 idle workers, no alarmist shouting by employers or press...
Significance. After several days' cogitation even the gloomiest alarmist felt less anxiety over the enactment of an undivided profits tax. Part of this reassurance came from the fact that the Ways & Means Committee members stuck to their idea that industry must be allowed to build up some reserves as a cushion against Depression...
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...