Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within walking distance of downtown, to which they can invite old friends for cocktails, or children and grandchildren for dinner. Unless they look hard, visitors do not even notice the necessary modifications-doors wide enough for wheelchairs, grab bars in the bathtub, raised electrical sockets (to save stooping), and panic buttons for emergencies. To the tenants, the best aspect of the new "sunset skyscrapers" is the assurance that the panic button will always bring prompt, professional aid. All the new buildings either have their own infirmaries and medical clinics or have special arrangements with a nearby hospital...
...woman passenger forced open an emergency door, and, after diving headfirst onto the wing, dropped to the ground. Others followed; 50, including the entire crew of six, survived-three without a scratch. Forty-one others in the rear of the plane died-many as they pushed in panic toward the exits...
Ominous Gesture. To Smith this seemed a far cry from the deal he had discussed with Wilson in Salisbury. Abruptly, he slapped government controls on all imports, supposedly to halt a buying panic that was rapidly depleting Rhodesia's hard-currency reserves, but perhaps to suggest that big events-such as a unilateral declaration of independence-lay ahead. Then, after a furious 24 hours in which he presided over a caucus of his Rhodesian Front Party and held three long Cabinet meetings, came an even more ominous gesture: the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency...
...black African nations has not been all that bad. Kenya's Mau Mau terrorism stopped at the first signs that independence would be granted, and the brutal slaughters of the Congo are so far the exception in Africa rather than the rule. The initial period of white panic and black exultation is past -a period that saw wholesale departures of colonial civil servants who took their "lumpers" (severance pay) when their jobs were "Africanized," or the thousands of European farmers who pulled up stakes and fled, out of some misbegotten sense of guilt and impending bloodshed...
...shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world for which they have survived. King Rat preaches no moral, but it succeeds at unearthing the big tough questions that make a moviegoer think for himself...