Word: alarmistic
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...certainly have no wish to appear an alarmist, hut I think the people should be told that this epidemic might become a serious thing. It appears that as influenza is passed from person to person, it becomes more and more deadly. . . . Since it appears that it increases in virulence as it travels, it should be brought home to every sufferer of the disease that for the community good, as well as for their own good, they should take every precaution to prevent its spread...
...even from the mouths of these obscure individuals was alarmist Dr. Wirt able, on the stand, to substantiate his lurid allegations. None of them had actually told the 60-year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been...
...wish to be unduly alarmist." said he, "but the farthest nebulae are doubling their distance from us every 1,300 million years and astronomers will have to double the apertures of their largest telescopes every 1,300 million years simply to keep up with their recession. I'm glad that you in America are planning to replace your 100-inch telescope by a 200-inch way ahead of time...
When assigned the task of investigating the prison system of Massachusetts, Auditor Hurley was ordered by Governor Ely not to give out any information until the report should be completed. The League for Independent Political Action's Committee on Prison Justice recently ascertained that the many exaggerated and alarmist years about Norfolk, which appeared from time to time in the Boston Herald, came direct, from Mr. Hurley's office to their State House reporter...
...atmosphere of technical cooperation as a surer route to internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism from the alarmist point of this is of course all drivel...