Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started his climb to the top when he was ten years old. One of eleven children of a Brooklyn furrier, he went to work selling papers, soon became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...
...move by night and hide by day. But there was no time for that; the allies' round-the-clock artillery gave them no peace. When the Chinese moved in the open by day, the airplanes hit them. The retreat, which had been orderly at first, began to grow panic-stricken and disordered. Some Chinese truck drivers were in such frantic hurry to get away from the planes that they ran down their own men on the roads...
...when the Elis, taking advantage of the natural let-up, started to move, the Crimson seemed to panic. Harvard still had a 4 to 2 edge going into the last period, but the ten could not get the jump on the ball as it had in the opening periods. The midfields failed to check back, the ride collapsed, and the attack blew several easy goals...
...good sportsmanship afterward, the crews form a "W," if you can wait around for awhile. Don't panic when they try to lift their oars in salute. Those are barges, not shells. There's even been talk of holding the sophomore prom in one of them...
...those measures through, Arthur Vandenberg was the most important U.S. foreign policy leader in Congress for the crucial years 1945-49. In a contemplative moment, Arthur Vandenberg once said that he was "the luckiest man alive." In some respects, he was. His father, a harnessmaker, went bankrupt in the panic of 1893. But nine-year-old Arthur went to work, prospered in a line of schoolboy enterprises, quit the University of Michigan after a year, and got himself a job on the Grand Rapids Herald. There he admired and studied the flamboyant oratorical style of Michigan Congressman William Alden Smith...