Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument ensued, and some of Waly's followers grabbed the lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more...
...reason for Detroit's optimism could be found in the dealers' empty lots. Last May a record 607,275 new cars were waiting to be sold; by last month the number had been slashed to 305,314, without a wave of panic selling. Another reason lay in the 1955 products coming off the assembly lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king...
...still Nasser stood, thrusting aside friendly hands that tried to pull him down out of danger. Then he stepped back to the microphone and in a hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again: "Oh, free men, let everybody stay in his place." Through the babble of panic rising around him, he bellowed: "My blood is for you. My life is for you." With a roar the crowd seized and pummeled the would-be assassin...
...Unkindest Cutters. But what fed the headlines more than Democratic gags and diatribes was the Republican panic. G.O.P. candidates all but trampled Charlie Wilson in their rush for the nearest exit. Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Cooper: "Inexcusable, and I criticize it with all my strength." Said Massachusetts' Saltonstall: "Unfair!" New York's Ives and New Jersey's Case turned their backs on Charlie Wilson. In South Bend, Ind., hard hit by Studebaker layoffs, Republican Congressional Candidate Shep Crumpacker demanded his resignation. Then G.O.P. national headquarters was on the phone, asking Charlie Wilson to back...
...hours the Denver White House flapped like an overcrowded dog kennel in an animated cartoon. But it did not panic. After a flurry of transcontinental phone calls, President Eisenhower issued a steadying statement: "I have never found him [Wilson] in the slightest degree indifferent to human misfortune . . . In spite of record peacetime employment, there are areas suffering from economic dislocations as the aftermath of war and inflation. Every one of these is engaging the earnest and persistent efforts of the Administration...