Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome effects of the March 1 thermonuclear explosion (TIME, March 22) continued to reverberate around the world. By last week the big blast had touched off an investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing...
...large part this attitude which put America into such a panic over recent revolutions in Asia, making us feel we had "lost" China and could have kept it had Washington not bungled, Lattimore added...
Brahms, Katchen had not noticed that the chandeliers had been swaying. Reported Turkish headlines next day: HERO PIANIST REMAINS CALM DURING EARTHQUAKE. AVERTS PANIC...
...they in turn should tell children who are to be admitted for operations, said the A.M.A. Journal. A simple, forthright explanation to the child-of the operation itself, of the anesthetic, and of what all those white-garbed people are up to-will help to save the youngster from panic...
...which Jacques Parysko '54 and Philip Longenecker 3G were killed, and which occasioned a letter from the Harvard Mountaineering Club (CRIMSON Feb. 5). Having been one of Parysko's closest friends for several years, and having climbed Mount Washington in the winter with him, I cannot agree that panic and inexperience caused the fatalities...