Word: panic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wounded in foot and arms by the blast, Ben-Gurion tried to still panic. "Sit down, everybody, don't leave your seats," he cried. But the Parliament floor was already alive with activity. "Get an ambulance!", "Call a doctor!", "Don't crowd!" shouted some of the members, as others rushed for first-aid equipment. In the midst of the commotion, two doctor-parliamentarians found their way to Minister of Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Moshe Shapiro, whose blood was gushing from bad wounds in the stomach and head...
Back to Hay-Pitching. That, far from panic, was the nation's mood last week, as reported by TIME correspondents in 33 cities. Sputnik, the Middle East and other events had, as a Chicago lawyer remarked, "punctured the psychological Maginot line." Said Jay Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch...
...immune to real terror over the last decade to be frightened by what they called "firecrackers," the lively Saigonese were suddenly thrown into a genuine panic as a result of their own celebrations. As thousands flocked to the trade fair marking their young republic's second birthday, a bottleneck developed at the two narrow bridges leading to the fair grounds. A stampede resulted; one of the bridges collapsed. Some 49 celebrators, including 36 women and children, were killed...
...land, an unmarried girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...
...This panic has resulted in what educators call "the new philosophy of education," which is summarized in the seemingly sound hypothesis that "we are teaching students, not subjects...