Word: alarmistic
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...Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant in Japan for two years! Publisher Hearst last week slathered his papers with a half-page editorial and half-page map under the screamer line: "Only Preparedness Will Prevent War." It sounded alarming even for alarmist Publisher Hearst. Excerpts...
...year a blatant young editor named John Bowman Chapple managed to win the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, partly by charging that President Frank and his faculty "pinks'' had made the university a hotbed of communism, atheism and free love (TIME, May 2, 1932 et seq.). Alarmist Chapple lost the election, but he had started a Red scare which last week resulted in a legislative investigation at Madison...
...smash this arrangement, it is unlikely that England and her ally, Italy, would stand by while the French destroy the Central Powers. They could not watch peacefully the elimination of the eastern check to French supremacy. It would mean, baldly, a general, disastrous war. That is not an alarmist view; it is, unfortunately, commonsense...
...violence loom large. . . . Unless there can be a more impressive integration of social skills than is revealed by recent trends, there can be no assurance that these alternatives with violent revolution and dark periods of repression can be averted. . . . The committee does not wish to assume an attitude of alarmist irresponsibility but it would be highly negligent to gloss over the stark and bitter realities of the social situation and to ignore the imminent perils in further advance of our heavy technical machinery over crumbling roads and shaking bridges. There are times when silence is not neutrality but assent...
...specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...