Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitterrand had gone only a few blocks when he noticed that he was being followed by another car. As he later told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...
...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...
When the market collapsed in 1929, Morgan tried to stop the panic as it had managed to do before. It headed a pool that put up a reputed $240 million to support the market. But the move had little effect. While Morgan's interests were relatively unscathed by the crash, the Depression spelled the end of concentrated banking power. The New Deal launched a campaign against "the princes of privilege." J. P. Morgan II was hauled down to Washington to appear before a whole series of investigations. Control of U.S. finance passed from Wall Street to Washington. Regulatory bodies...
...Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained by five men-Edison shook hands with a colleague, commented later: "I felt happy because we were poor...
...fender tanks split; motor fuel washed against the bus's hot rear engine, and flames exploded into the sky. Screaming wildly, the girls struggled to get out, pushed toward the front of the bus. Professor Ernest Sixta, who had been sitting in the back, yelled, "Don't panic! Don't panic!" Bus Driver Carmen Nini opened his door, pushed out a few girls. Fighting his way through the billowing flames to the rear, he forced open the emergency doors and began shoving out others. "The heat was awful," said one girl. "I jumped to the street...