Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water shortages are not uncommon in the United States, nor are water surpluses in the form of floods. But the present panic stems not from the fact that shortages exist in the desert states or the prairie states, or even in a city like Los Angeles where the limitations of nature have been brushed aside. These shortages are expected. The present problem concerns the Northeast, where water was apparently as abundant as the concentrated masses who live there. Now, after four seasons of chronic drought, New Yorkers, and to some extent New Englanders, have become as water-conscious as Arizonians...
Sold Out. Nevertheless, the siege began with a British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near...
Sophomore Jeff Grate will replace George Neville in the backcourt, and 6-6 junior Lynn Bennion will start in place of John Scott at forward. The change isn't the result of any panic button pushing by Coach Floyd Wilson; both Grate and Bennion convincingly earned first-string berths last weekend...
...city displayed an astonishing reserve of cool in crisis, never succumbing to panic or total paralysis. But the damage, like almost all statistics about New York, was impressive. Everywhere, there were shuttered shops, empty offices, unanswered telephones, vacant theater seats, unused barber chairs, empty streets where there should have been crowds. An extraordinary number of people somehow managed to get to work, but day after day went by without pay for thousands of far-distant clerks, secretaries and laborers who could scarcely afford the loss. Merchants complained that they were losing millions every day. There was no doubt that...
...defendant pays a bondsman 10% of the value of the bail. But rates vary from place to place (5% in New York, 12% in Wisconsin) and even from defendant to defendant. Some bondsmen give lower rates to seasoned criminals on the theory that they are less likely to panic and flee...