Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viruses, but by far the most deadly is the bacterial form. The disease, which causes inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, often strikes without warning and can kill a husky young man within hours. Fatal in at least 10% of cases, it understandably causes public panic when it breaks out. Yet, little is known about it or about the best way to treat it. In fact, careful studies have only served to deepen some of its mysteries. But, as the University of Southern California's Dr. Paul F. Wehrle told the New York Academy...
...money shortage worsened, and at one point the nation came uncomfortably close to a money panic. Prime interest rates went up four different times, shooting from 4½% in late 1965 to 6% in mid-1966 - equal to an increase of 33% in twelve months. A wave of hedge-borrowing and money hoarding swept the country. Figuring that money would become steadily scarcer and costlier, corporate treasurers borrowed more than they needed. In June, the Chase Manhattan Bank raised interest rates on most consumer loans for the first time since 1959, to 5½% "discounted" (in effect...
...supplies the fuel that Rhodesia cannot readily get anywhere else. That would cut off Britain's considerable trade with South Africa, most notably including gold, which is one of the main props for the British pound. Last week sterling dropped of a cent in a wave of panic selling. Whatever happens, Wilson told Parliament, the U.N. sanctions "must not be allowed to develop into a confrontation, whether economic or military, involving the whole of southern Africa...
...other circumstances, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato might well feel a sense of panic. There is great pressure on him to call general elections next month-at a time when his own party is beclouded in "black mists" of scandal and split by factional rivalries. But Sato seems unworried. The reason is that the main opposition party is in even worse shape than his Liberal Democrats...
...half a person." Whether he was roaming the English countryside as a boy, piloting a seaplane from Australia to Japan as a young man, or crossing the Atlantic in a small sloop in middle age. Chichester always faced danger alone. Though he has never escaped fear ("A spot of panic is good for you, keeps you alive"), Chichester has loved the rewards of mastering...