Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with bayonets drawn. A few Britons jabbed out with rifle butts, but the only shooting took place in the Arab quarter, where a jeepload of French, caught in a crowd, fired, killing two boys aged twelve and 14. Cairo newspapers boasted that Egyptian irregulars in Port Said had "spread panic among the enemy troops...
...third, and many houses, apartment buildings and offices were already feeling the chill. The famed oil-burning "Blue Train" that runs from Paris to the Riviera was canceled-setting off a cry of anguish from Riviera hotelkeepers, who estimate tourist traffic is already off 75%. Housewives caught the panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded: "During the last few days, a new wave of fear seems...
...Leonhardt interests a big chunk of the rest, leaving few shares around for trading. When the suspension was announced, the stock dropped from 16⅛ to 10, but only for a few hours. The Leonhardt interests began to buy, and it started up again, causing some shorts to panic and buy in order to cover their commitments, thus sending the stock...
...time, the Communists may try to renege on the promises they made in panic. But the promises themselves are significant. On the revolution's sixth day, Premier Imre Nagy announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to withdraw its troops from Budapest, pledged that Hungary's hated security police would be disbanded, that the "serious sins" of the past twelve years would be rectified, and that his government would embrace the "new democratic forms of self-government initiated by the people...
...make a man of the boy. The only person who really knows Tom and likes him. though, is the housemaster's wife (Deborah Kerr. no kin to John). In the end. when Tom has been driven to suicidal desperation by the taunts of his pals and a panic dread that he may really be what they say he is, it is she who restores his soul by giving him her body...