Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
...Parking Panic...
Meanwhile, signs of panic appeared in the student body. As a result of a warning that each student who has registered a car will have to state the location of his overnight parking facility on a questionnaire by Nov. 19, the University's lots were completely filled two days after upperclass registration. Last year they took a month to fill...
Even then, Hibbler used to panic the teen-agers by his sudden, disconcerting swoops from a high note to a sub-basement tone. His second big break came a year and a half ago, when Decca signed him up and he recorded a song called Unchained Melody. It became a No. 1 hit. Now he asks $3,000 and up a week for appearances, plays the gaudiest spots in the biggest towns. Between dates he stays at home in Teaneck, N.J. with his wife, listening to the radio. "They tell good stories, those soap operas," he says. "Songs have good...
...retreat in panic or in haste, as in "They bugged out of Seoul...