Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served only sherry, Almond frowned, then cracked: "Well, I guess I'll have to have an old-fashioned sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud, ordered the soldier to write 25 concise words on the differences between ham and Virginia...
...teau de Thorenc above Cannes. Minister of State Jean Letourneau, in charge of Indo-Chinese affairs, on coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely no justification for any panic or for talk of catastrophe." The cabinet called on energetic General Alphonse Juin, French Resident General in Morocco, to look into the Indo-China mess. Juin's first act last week was a telephone call to Bao Dai, after which Bao. Dai announced he would fly to Saigon as soon...
...pamphlet, he traced the history of the Communist movement with the hope of substituting fact for hysteria. "The non-Communist world," he said "must remember that it can increase or reduce the potency of this mighty Soviet weapon. It must renounce panic because frightened people are not capable of making intelligent decisions...
...South Korean army had recovered from its panic and was fighting bravely and well on the U.S. right flank. But the U.S. left flank was open: there was a yawning gap between this flank and the west coast. Around it the North Koreans poured two crack divisions, the 4th and 6th (described, in Douglas MacArthur's overoptimistic communiqués of that period, as "roving bands). In a matter of days they swept through the southwestern corner of Korea and raced east for Pusan. They were in sight of Masan, 30 miles from Pusan, before they were stopped...
...Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also an unwitting plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME...