Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earthquake-wise Bakersfield reacted without panic. In the California Theater for example 13-year-old Bob Shaffer herded a flock of youngsters out of the matinee so calmly that they were hardly jostled. Ambulances and police rescue squads began rolling as soon as the earth stopped shuddering. They found the downtown business section of Bakersfield hardest hit, but counted a remarkably light toll of two dead (from falling roofs) and 32 hurt. Property damage was estimated upwards from $20 million, adding to the $40 million caused by last month's quake and subsequent settling shocks...
...valley has been hard hit this year, and though public health officials are shying away from the panic word epidemic they admit that the outbreak may prove to be California's worst. Day after day patients have been admitted to hospitals with splitting headaches, stiff necks and high fever, later to lapse into a coma which may last for weeks. Children and the elderly are especially affected; the virus does not so often strike adults in their prime. Unlike the Eastern and St. Louis virus, the Western form rarely causes permanent brain damage...
...Angeles, for a few minutes, there was near panic. "It was the first time," said a Hollywood actor, "that I ever saw whitecaps on a swimming pool...
Sound-Proof Helmet. All these effects can be felt with ordinary jet engines. Afterburner noise makes them more intense and adds some effects of its own. Men exposed to an afterburner's sound field for the first time are overwhelmed by terror and panic. They want desperately to escape, or as one victim put it, "to roll yourself into as small a ball as possible...
...Cornell students have been suspended for a year for making a surprise raid on the studio under the camouflage of Hallow'een masks. They seized the transmitting facilities and for several minutes threw listeners into a panic by broadcasting news of Soviet attacks on European cities. The students are protesting the University's action...