Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually it comes from a CBS-TV studio in New York, where there is no snow, no need for remote units or any other special equipment, no special reason to panic...
...having started it the day after another one of her shows--the last in the series on the Constitution--appeared on Omnibus. She knew something would come out on Sunday, even though normally the professionals in New York "take a week of rehearsals to put on a show." The panic would all be over by Sunday, she felt sure. But, as she puts it, "To make the program look spontaneous, we have to get all the bugs...
...Resisted panic over a dollar flight through the now-legalized black market that drove the peso from 30 per dollar to 37, and doggedly insisted instead that it intends to remove remaining controls, thus freeing the peso completely...
...final line. At the Boston opening the critics cried "tremendous," but one of them fairly noted that she was sometimes "a little childish." Under the strain of the huge part her voice gave out, and one night before the show she broke down and wept in a panic. "I feel as if I'm climbing a great mountain," she told a friend, "and I'm bruised and hurt. In my part a simple country girl has such faith that she can move mountains. I think if only I had that faith I could do the part...
...well-to-do family. Later the family moved to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where his father, George Edwin Funston, owned the International Savings Bank. Funston. an honor student in school and an ardent Boy Scout, seemed to have an assured future until everything changed in 1924. In a bank panic that year, the family wealth was swept away, and Funston, in his freshman year at high school, had to earn money to go to college. He candled eggs in a grocery store, became a messenger boy for a bank, a cashier's assistant in the local Morrell packing plant...