Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer necessary to rebuke the sunny follies of the Dawnists . . . What now calls for diagnosis and cure is the contagious mood of universal discouragement spread on every side by a host of Giants of Despair. These have turned Doubting Castle into a mighty convention headquarters for panic-stricken editors, lecturers, candidates for public office and even clergy, who, disenchanted with prospects for the millennium, bid us now prepare as best we may for the approaching dissolution of every hope and help...
...Welles helped with the staging, came through with a method of displaying Heroine Colette Marchand as if she were suspended in ice. Near the finish, he was dithering nervously in the wings when a drapery covering the frozen hero began to tear as it was raised. Stagehands began to panic, but Welles rose to the occasion: "Continuez! Continuez!" he yelled. "Let it tear! C'est magnifique!" The audience gave Welles an ovation. But in later performances, the company had to be content with an untorn drapery; the first-night tear was too hard to duplicate...
...work goes slowly, but Matthew Smith does not let himself worry about that. Says he: "You have to think about what you've done by the end of the year-not at the end of the week or the day. If you think about that, you get panic-stricken...
Triumphal Arches. Six days after fleeing into exile, the Shah was back in his capital, stronger than ever, without having lifted a finger. Though his flight had reflected his panic, it also served to precipitate the crisis and thereby, in the end, had proved beneficial. For the people had shown more faith in him and in the throne he occupied than he himself suspected. Premier Zahedi and the entire frock-coated diplomatic corps were at the airport to greet...
...walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers fled. Later a larger force returned and Clare led her sisters in prayer. Suddenly a huge storm arose that scattered the tents of the enemy, who once again fled in panic...