Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panic of 1907" made the Corporation promptly decide that "public servants" might prove too hard to place. So on October, 1908, the Business School alone opened its doors, and 33 student started courses as candidates for the newly-minted degree of Master of Business Administration...
...years ago "when the idiots were in the majority, we gave Stalin everything he got. Today the West is united and awake. I can't understand the panic; I can't see the defeatism." For example, "Russia isn't using the Iranian crisis, because it isn't strong enough. Stalin suffers from two weaknesses--Communism and Russia...
...last week panic had passed. Prices appeared to have leveled off. If the plateau was high, nevertheless it was level, and if any trends were discernible, they were down, not up. Manufacturers had more goods than they could sell. Almost everything looked safe-at the very moment when real inflationary pressures are just beginning to heat...
...when he headed for the line where the worst trouble could begin - the Russo-Iranian frontier between the Caspian Sea and Mt. Ararat. Nervous officers showed him their defense preparations and tried to keep him hidden from watchful Russian binoculars across the line. In the whole area he found panic-ridden faces, men afraid to talk for fear of the police or of ever-present Communist agents...
...Long Dark Hall (Cusick International; United Artists) is a long, dark movie about an erring husband (Rex Harrison) who blunders his way to the edge of the gallows. Finding his paramour murdered in her room, Harrison runs home in a panic, burns his bloodstained suit, lies to the police and spends most of the film being badgered by a prosecutor. Harrison's wife, played appealingly by Lilli Palmer, has two grisly scenes with the actual murderer (Anthony Dawson), a beady-eyed psychopath. But Directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck are so entranced with brooding, shadowy photography that most...