Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading to the Woods. The party stalwarts were in a panic at the thought of losing 68-year-old Nehru, who has allowed no one to grow up in his shadow, and whose national prestige, if slipping a little, is still immense. By acclamation they rushed through a resolution declaring that the Congress Party "categorically refuses to contemplate any period devoid of Nehru's continued leadership." But Nehru was standing firm. He scolded the party members for their action: "You do not do me any credit. It will mean that I have acted casually and you have also acted...
...Whenever there are runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...
Back from a recess that revealed most constituents calm and cautious (TIME, April 14), buoyed by the President's stinging vetoes and preachments against panic, the G.O.P., with the session's tightest discipline, was earnestly tossing roadblocks into the path of the freewheeling Democratic majority...
Stephane R. Salomon '58 charged the mysterious caller with "sheer vengeful spite" and an attempt to "create confusion and panic...
...matter of weeks until summer recess. But what difference does it make? Since the abominable 1956 elections, we've been the prisoners of division. Georges Bidault may try. But neither he nor his friends nor anybody else can make it. One day sooner or later there will be panic. I don't know what will cause it. Perhaps a disaster in North Africa, perhaps a long governmental crisis in Paris...