Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging sign was the absence of panic among Republican politicians. Not until two days after the announcement of the President's heart attack did the first long-distance call from a high-level Republican come into GOP national headquarters. The caller was told to carry on with his organizational work. The only perceptible hitches in the Republican get-along were a slight slowdown in the pace of the 101-member national commitee staff and the postponement of a $100-a-plate party dinner in Oklahoma City...
...pass off this speech as poetic imagery, but later reference shows that Lady Macduff was literally comparing the habits of birds known to her against her husband's action. The very use of the word flight for Macduff's visit to England brings to mind the mad panic he must have been in as it is well known that chickens do not fly particularly well...
...microphone: "Oh, my men, stand in your places. Oh, free men, stand. I revolted for your sake. I taught you dignity and self-respect. Oh, my citizens, my men, I brought to this country dignity and freedom, and I fought for your sons. Oh, free men, stand." The panic died away. Egyptians stopped and turned to listen to the passionate, guttural Arabic streaming out to them from the excited, exciting man who had stood so close to death. "Raise your heads, brothers, because the days of feudalism and colonialism are past." It was a moment, perhaps the moment of truth...
Uranium stocks dipped with Howe's announcement but bounced back fast. There was no panic selling of uranium shares, and the only companies that seemed depressed were a few small, speculative outfits which may have trouble getting into production in the 20 months Howe allowed them. Heads of the bigger companies took Howe's statement as a fair warning that Canada and the U.S. will not go on indefinitely paying a premium price for stockpile uranium. Said Franc Joubin, president of Algom Uranium and discoverer of Ontario's Blind River field: "This is the orange light before...
...claimed, had threatened him with a gun, and to protect his life, Dunne had used a judo trick learned in the commandos: a slashing blow with the edge of his hand against Watters' larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne. "I was only going to stun him." For nine days, while banner headlines in the London press blared forth the details of the latest crime of passion (20 British and ten German reporters covered the proceedings), the seven-man army court...