Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wednesday night. Vag shuddered: before his eyes swirled unhappy visions of the tense examination room, stacks of blue-books, the stern-faced proctors; he saw the terse sadistic questions: "Identify . . ." "Discuss and cite examples. . . ." "Elaborate, in essay form . . .", "Write briefly on three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded by while he struggled to pump out answers from an empty mind. Vag breathed hard, clutched the book nervously, and wrote "Chapter 10" so hard at the top of his reading notes that he broke the pencil point. He plunged into the reading ". . . The clue...
...away as Albany, N.Y. and Boston were afraid to let Philadelphia fugitives come near. Food ran short and starvation stepped in behind disease. Prices of coffins skyrocketed. Servants fled and the few who dared hire out as nurses set their own fees. Some doctors left town in panic and many of those who stayed died from fever and fatigue. Rush himself came down with fever twice, prescribed from his bed, recovered and went on purging and bloodletting. To a panicked population he became a living symbol of strength even as his ministrations helped some toward their graves. There were some...
...Philadelphia, that summer of 1793, plague had unloosed panic; panic had enlarged and hardened the latent core of man's inhumanity...
...plot of their own against neighboring Haiti. The scheme, uncovered late last month, called for the murder of Haitian President Dumarsais Estimé and other high Haitian officials and-to provide a reason for indignation-the burning of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. In the ensuing panic, Dominican troops under the renegade Haitian colonel, Astrel Roland (TIME, Feb. 21), were to invade the country...