Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor. Despite Castro's best efforts, however, the gripes continued wherever Cubans gathered. "There is no room in our ranks for complainers or weaklings, for sowers of panic, for grumblers," warned the Cuban Labor Confederation. Castro's revolutionary committee went even further. It called on all Cubans to "stem lack of seriousness, counter-revolutionary rumors and jokes"-a laughable attempt to curb even humor in Castro's ever more puritanical Cuba...
...play is intended as a parable, a fable, perhaps, of man trying to escape death, fearing it, moving always ahead of it in panic: foolish as he tries to escape, even more foolish as he tries to rationalize his behavior ultimately pathetic as he tries to brave it out, knowing there...
...customers, went from 41 to 5%. The increase meant higher interest rates on loans, less available mortgage money and, just as the Fed intended, a hold-down on all but necessary spending because borrowed money would be more costly. That, for now, was the extent of the gold panic's effect on the U.S. man in the street...
...Next day, while London's market was shut down, New York opened on schedule, and in an equally busy day the industrials regained half of what they had lost. Most of the activity was caused by nervous small investors. Wall Street regulars took the gold panic with remarkable calm in the knowledge that while the situation could turn into a dis aster for the international monetary system, it was unlikely to have catastrophic effects...
...bundles bulging with everything from jars of curry powder to television sets, turbaned men, sari-clad women and coffee-tinted youngsters stepped off planes from such diverse points as Cairo, Dar-es-Salaam and Athens. Most of their journeys began in Kenya, where they had sold their businesses at panic prices, paid scalpers' ransom rates for airline tickets and grabbed planes to any place that offered hope of a connecting flight to Britain. Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede, 6,200 of Kenya's Asians descended on London before Britain finally slammed the gate...