Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation is the same for humans as present evidence indicates a soldier irradiated from the blast of an atom bomb or artillery shall, or contaminated by the radioactive dust scattered by the blast, would panic or "freeze" in a fearful battle-ground situation...
...that evening that my ten year old son could not handle on a bad day (and I suspect that Mr. Robeson impersonating the Emperor Jones would hardly be a danger to my four year old). What has happened to this generation of Harvard men that they should flee in panic before such hopeless bores as the Fasts and the Robesons...
Upcountry in the Kiambu reserve, scene of last month's village massacre, a Mau Mau gang, brandishing keen-edged pangas, set fire to native huts. But instead of panic-stricken people rushing out to be cut to bits by the attackers' arms, an alerted Home Guard opened fire, killed 21 Mau Mau. In the same area, a platoon of 20 Negro soldiers of the King's African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang...
Most top educators seemed to agree that 1) Congress has a right to investigate whatever it pleases, and 2) Communists should be barred from teaching. Nor was anyone in a state of panic. And yet, the climate of the campuses had already begun to change. The investigations, said Dean Milton Muelder of Michigan State College, "have cast a pall, a shadow, creating doubt as to how far scholars can now go in discussing controversial issues...
...next few years brought Dawes a son and daughter, success as a lawyer, choice property purchases, and a directorship of the leading Lincoln bank. When the panic of '93 struck, no depositor of the Lincoln bank lost a dime, but Dawes had to borrow $200,000 to keep the bank afloat...