Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally striking is the effect of chlorpromazine on delirium tremens. Patients do not develop the usual panic, nausea and chills; tremor subsides so quickly that they can be discharged after half the usual time, or less...
...First Secretary of the party, at Malenkov's expense? Outside the Kremlin, no one knows. In the months after Stalin's death, it was to the interest of all the jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security...
Investigating health officers recalled that two small boys, Leonard Barraclough, 5, and James Bailey, 2, overlooked in the early panic, had mysteriously died right at its onset. Their respective causes of death had been reported as infectious hepatitis and epilepsy, but autopsies showed that they had actually died from lead poisoning. Finally, health officers solved the mystery: each pound of casing still contained a tenth of an ounce of lead, and the children had been breathing the lead fumes around the fireside...
...technical quality of the production, however, is not an important factor in judging the worth of The Gospel Witch. The play, although fatiguing, is undeniably interesting; Mr. Phelps' verse and the thoughtful interpretations of the cast go far toward revealing the workings of a community gripped by irrational panic and its slow growth toward understanding. The effort which has gone into the production has been ably directed to bring out the merit of the play as it stands. An attentive audience will find it in many ways engrossing and revealing...
When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...