Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CEYLON A Quarrel of Tongues In the eastern part of the island of Ceylon, the bodies of three women, three children and a man were recovered from a well into which they had jumped in a panic-stricken search for shelter. In the capital city of Colombo (pop. 424,816), dozens died and hundreds were injured when police and mobs battled through Lipton's Circus, a tree-shaded plaza where seven roads meet. Trains were derailed, buses overturned and burned; terrified passers-by had to submit to a language test at the hands of mobsters and if they failed...
Then the long march began. Xenophon rallied the panic-stricken Hellenes, got them to elect five new leaders-himself included-and fight their way to the sea. The heavily armed Greeks moved laboriously across the plain, while clouds of Persian cavalry showered them with arrows. The only way out was to turn north into the mountains of Kurdistan, whose warlike inhabitants had just chopped to pieces a Persian army of 112,000 men. In seven days of ceaseless fighting with the Kurds, the Greeks suffered more than in all their battles with the Persians...
...Staring in Disbelief." Such sponsor neglect incenses Susskind, a toy bulldog of a man who hardly minds biting the hand that hesitates to feed him. At every chance, he sneers at the "ocean of mediocrity" brought on by "panic buying" of quiz games and westerns. He insists that advertisers are deluded, says that viewers "are staring in stark disbelief and disinterest, and I hazard the guess that their pocketbooks are zipped...
...challenge of Nikita Khrushchev's Sputnik III, a cone-shaped monster weighing almost 1½ tons and launched by a rocket obviously bigger than any in the U.S. arsenal, brought no sense of panic or dismay. Instead, it was accepted as another stern warning that the U.S. must push hard on its own missile program, turn at least one deaf ear to propaganda talk of easy disarmament...
...stirred hopes, fears and questions throughout France. The government-run national radio network broke into a musical program to flash the message. A special edition of France Soir, the nation's largest evening paper, disappeared from the newsstands like birdseed scattered before a flock of starlings. In near panic, Speaker Andre Le Troquer of the National Assembly called upon all Deputies who were out of town to return to Paris at once...