Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe blow, lessened the chances for a peaceful end to the Viet Nam war, and even blackened themselves in the eyes of other Communists, all to smash a growth of freedom that was in no way a threat to Russia's security. The invasion was conceived in panic and carried out in hysteria. The hope for peaceful coexistence rested in the good sense and rationality of the Soviet leaders, but men controlled by fear have neither...
Strategy of Panic. Humphrey's speech was a grace note in a week that had few of them. The amphitheatre itself was heavily guarded and isolated, like a prison camp or a nuclear installation. If the 10,000 young protesters were bent on raising a ruckus outside the hall, McCarthy's forces were determined to raise one within. "There is no floor strategy," said McCarthy's aide, Jerry Eller, only half in jest, on the eve of the convention. "Just achieve panic, and then...
...controlled panic, Annie launches herself into the kind of picaresque Parisian tour beloved of Vassar girls in their junior year. Boys woo her, flics pursue her; an older man takes her to a boite. Eventually, she and a cellist make beautiful music together on his pallet. When the sun comes up, Annie returns to bid farewell to her aunt and to her childhood...
...television's, star of the week, though, was Anchorman Walter Cronkite. It was sweet vindication. In 1964, when the CBS news rating fell off, the panic-stricken network jettisoned him between conventions. This year, keeping on a "low-residue diet, a trick I learned from the astronauts," and forsaking his pipe to keep his throat moist, Cronkite stayed on top of the story all week. He constantly re-queried his field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator...
...three separate spots on both sides of the Pacific Ocean last week, natural disasters dealt death and destruction. A long-dormant Central American volcano unexpectedly blew up, and severe earthquakes produced panic in a pair of crowded capitals...