Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Peking, 200 soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off the torrent for three hours. "People are confident," cried Peking's New China News Agency nervously, "that everything has been foreseen. There will be no panic, no hunger, nothing like the bad old days when there was no help from above...
...Western Australia, near Exmouth Gulf, oil drillers struck salt water at 3,600 feet, the same level at which a nearby well had hit oil. In two frenzied days of panic selling, some stocks dropped as much as 50% on the Sydney exchange; the total value of oil shares dropped an estimated $67 million. Australia's secretary...
...were pulling back from outposts to the west of Hanoi; tricolors were falling, yellow-starred Viet Minh flags were rising. More than 2,000 Catholic refugees streamed into Hanoi last week on the way to safety in the south, but in the city itself there was no panic; the Communists were not due for 80 days...
There was still no panic in the city, no discernible excitement around its shifting defense perimeter: the Viet Minh continued to harass as diligently as soldier ants; the French put on one or two counterattacks and claimed "appreciable" Communist losses. The artillery fire was all French-as it was at Dienbienphu before the Communists were ready. But the French and Vietnamese troops were now almost certain they would not be called upon to fight. "The gentlemen at Geneva have arranged it all," they would say. "Wait a few days. You will...
Defiance & Resignation. There was as yet no panic in Hanoi: there was more than enough food to go round, and the piaster was steady at 75 to the dollar; there were many who looked forward to a profitable co-existence with the Communists. "The Viets will need good food," mused the French hostess of the fine Le Manoir restaurant. "We shall provide it for them." But Hanoi's one sure barometer, real estate, was sharply lower, and it was possible to buy a gleaming white villa for the price of a normal year's rental. And North Viet...