Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave him one, and pretended to panic. He said O.K., look for land...
...week's end, after a series of top-level conferences, CBS executives, recovering from their panic, took a deep breath and announced a decision: George Kaufman will be banned from the panel only until the contract with American Tobacco Co. runs out this month. Then Show Business will return to the air at a new time (Sat. 9 p.m.), without a sponsor, but with George S. Kaufman back in his familiar place. Said Kaufman: "It constitutes some kind of vindication, I suppose...
...often before. The argument was, as usual, the budget. "What are my opponents asking?" said he acidly. "At one and the same time they want more revenue and less taxation, more spending and less deficit, more reforms and less change." Downfall of his government, he warned, would lead to panic, "and from panic to speculation, and from speculation to collapse of the Treasury." His hearers were unmoved...
...plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating at the surface), sea water, rain and dew. He had endured his epic voyage, he said, to prove his theory that victims of shipwreck can survive at sea indefinitely if they have the necessary knowledge and equipment, and do not fall into panic or despair...
...Korean front by steady Communist attacks. The Reds pierced the lines and cut off the command post and the regiment's medical station. While the colonel organized his headquarters troops for a breakout, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun kept up the spirits of the wounded and helped prevent panic among those left to fight. At dusk the survivors fought their way back to the U.N. lines. Kapaun stayed behind, doctoring the wounded who could not be moved, and praying with them. He has not been seen again...