Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These fits and starts of panic, however, are not the most important consequence of the College's oblivious attitude toward the pre-med. Medical schools themselves are growing exasperated with what they term Harvard's "laissez-faire"; the dean of Cornell Medical School last week exploded to an applicant from Harvard, "Why in the world do they let you drift along like that for three years up there and then expect you to get accepted." Boston University Medical School says the same. Even the Dean of Harvard's own Medical School feels that pre-med advising in the College...
...large studies of this year's vote which will soon be under way, we hazard a guess. We fear that the defection of the cities is the work of the Reds in Government issue and its extrapolators, the work of men who, were it not for the atmosphere of panic that inevitably attends struggles with modern totalitarianism, would amount to nothing but small-time opportunists...
...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
...Panic struck at 2 p.m. Dever had not been right behind the advance car and a rumor that he had been seen near Kirkland House spread among the politicos. Then, just on the hour, a HYDC agent pedalled up furiously on a light-weight bike. "I just spoke to a cop," he reported to Tobin, "and the cop says he saw Dever's car going up to the Law School. The cop says Dever is going to speak at the Law School...
...boarding party, more than 30 strong, clambered to the Takshing's deck, her 300 Chinese passengers were seized by panic. One old woman knelt and chanted prayers to the Goddess of Mercy...