Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...
...April 21: Dulles returned to Paris for pre-Geneva talks with Bidault and Eden. Two days later, a cable arrived from Indo-China which the British privately refer to as "Navarre's panic cable." Navarre said Dienbienphu was on the verge of falling, could be saved only by heavy air support either from the U.S. or Britain. Dulles again rejected the appeal both because it would be "war," which Congress would have to approve, and because U.S. military experts doubted that air strikes could now save the fortress. Bidault seemed to have got the idea from Dulles that congressional...
Crucial Meeting. By Saturday, French leaders had recovered from their first panic. Bidault held a crucial meeting with the Cabinet. He fought down those who wanted peace at any price and at once, even if it meant dealing directly with the Viet Minh. He won "a free hand" to negotiate at Geneva, but only coupled with a specification-"to bring back peace in Indo-China...
From Moscow itself last week came a suggestion of panic. Three days after Mrs. Petrov was rescued from the Russians at Darwin, the Russian government abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Australia. In one breath, the Russians accused the Australians of "slander" for calling Petrov a spy, and in the next, demanded his immediate return as a swindler and embezzler. Unable to get back the documents delivered to Australia by Petrov, the departing staff at Canberra's Russian embassy spent their last hours getting rid of other information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from...
...fear of fire in the nursery had long haunted Freda Holland. 41, a night nurse at Reading's Dellwood Maternity Home. 36 miles west of London. Early on Easter Sunday, it rose to grip her heart in panic as she opened the door behind which lay her newest charges: 15 babies, none more than nine days old. The room beyond was filled with smoke; flames licked through the floor amid the cribs, and one baby's bedding was already taking fire. Sister Holland screamed for help and rushed into the ward. Another nurse came to help, but they...