Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the quick stitching was the old familiar roll call. A whole force of Republicans and Southern Democrats, mindful of heavy cut-that-budget mail, happily hacked away during voice votes, but switched in near panic when they were maneuvered into roll calls. Among the items restored by recorded vote: $50 million for grants to states for sewage-treatment plants. Any Congressman knows that a recorded vote against an important appropriation like that would raise an awful smell back home...
...burned up the base lines and copped the batting title. At 21 he was called up to the Red Sox. It was the big test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went berserk on the ball field and woke up in a straitjacket...
Your Jan. 21 story on the second bombing of my home (along with another parsonage and four churches here) indicated that I and my family had fled in panic after the explosion. Nothing was farther from the truth...
...shipped out for loan exhibitions paintings still considered explosive at home until, in 1954, the ghost of Shchukin rose to haunt them. During a huge Picasso retrospective in Paris, Shchukin's daughter, Irene, demanded back 37 Picassos formerly in her father's collection. In a panic, the Russian embassy dispatched a small black truck to the exhibit, whisked the Picassos off the wall and to safety inside their embassy. Said Comrade Picasso: "After all, what would happen if the Count of Paris claimed the chateau of Versailles...
...Panic & Deals. Actually, the problem is all too real right now for thousands of high-school students. In their panic to get into college-and in their wild search for the best scholarship deals-today's youngsters have acquired the habit of applying to as many schools as possible. One Connecticut boy, for instance, was able to choose between Amherst, which offered him no scholarship. Bates, which offered $600, Wesleyan with a $500 offer, Holy Cross with $700, and Yale with $1,250. Another boy sent Princeton an irate letter after he was rejected, pointed out that...