Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students were sent to him by private physicians after experiencing anguish, anxiety, and panic. In an interview Sunday, Dr. Rinkel said that the students feared becoming schizophrenic and being hospitalized...
...Threat. Louisianans were too weary to panic when Army engineers reported that a barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify the polluted water.) The river was closed to shipping for 40 miles below Baton Rouge while the Army brought in 116,000 gas masks, and a flotilla of Navy and Coast Guard ships searched for the barge. When divers finally found it after five days, its chlorine tanks were intact...
Closer Parity. Both the Indian and Pakistan governments were also dropping public hints as to the ground rules for future fighting. Each disclaimed any intention of bombing the other's jammed, slum-packed cities, which are easily flammable and prone to panic. And seemingly, neither side intends to launch a massive, win-the-war offensive with the aim of destroying the enemy's army and occupying his land...
...rebels with a decree abolishing Wessin y Wessin's command. That brought the general to life. The San Isidro airbase radio crack led with bitter charges of Communist influence on Garcia-Godoy: "Again, we are on the alert!" The threat of renewed fighting sent waves of panic through Santo Domingo. Both the OAS and the U.S. agreed that Wessin y Wessin...
...history of U.S. foreign aid is one of changing goals, phased in and then phased out as they succeeded gloriously or were abandoned in panic. Back in 1942, when Congress voted funds for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a technical-assistance operation for Latin America, it was only trying to combat pro-Nazi sentiment in Central and South America. Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms...