Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapers got wind of what was up, and the storm was on. CALL SECRET MEET AS FALLOUT PERILS L.A.. cried Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. ATOM FALLOUT RISE HERE SETS OFF PANIC. cried the Chandler Mirror-News.Switchboards lit up as anxious residents phoned city officials, newspaper offices. TV studios. Scientists passed out the word. "No danger to anyone.'' said U.C.L.A.'s Nuclear Medicine Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that...
Most important of all in terms of long-range U.S. domestic welfare, Dwight Eisenhower, among all the politicians in Washington, refused to panic when recession came. Time and again Democratic doom-criers, editorialists and some timorous Republicans demanded that he "do" something. He was in fact doing quite a bit: by fighting effectively against irresponsible tax cuts and wild pump-priming, he was proving that a sound free-enterprise economy could right itself without massive Government interference. He also was holding down the inflation that would have been the inevitable result of a big Government spending spree...
...heart ailment; in Manhattan. Growing up in Allegheny, Pa., Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours...
...Gaulle's Cabinet met to consider the growing terrorism. But "Le grand Charlie" refused to be rattled. The problem should be left to the police, he reportedly argued. If the government reacted any more strongly, the F.L.N. would have achieved its purpose of throwing France into a seeming panic just when calmness was essential...
...very last minute, his newly won friends worked furiously to fill up the gaps in Abdie's American background. He was taught about George Washington's cherry tree, taken to the Air Force snack bar and instructed in ice-cream sundaes. There was an eleventh-hour panic when it was discovered that he knew nothing about Paul Revere. But he worked hard and remembered it all. Said Bardos: "He has a mind like a sponge...