Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Kimes's calm-voiced announcement that he switched on his portable tape recorder, caught Second Officer Max Webb's emergency-landing instructions to the passengers: ". . . If we use the chutes, please stay calm. Remember, you will sit down to go out the chute. Don't panic . . . When we do land, and if it is a rough landing-which is a possibility-please lean forward in your seats. You grab your ankles and stay down, or put your arms under your knees. Move as far forward as you possibly can. Do not move until we tell...
...habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing...
...repeatedly dunking their faces in a wash basin while he took their electrocardiograms. Their heart rates promptly slowed down. One of Wolfs most important findings was that fear intensified the reflex. If a man feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus causing a reflex so marked that his heart will quit. Or chemical changes caused by the too-strong reflex action may throw the heart into equally fatal fibrillation (a useless twitching...
...Panic or in gloom...
...Satan Bug. Panic spreads at Station 3, an imposing desert installation surrounded by barbed wire and watchdogs and spoken of in whispers as "the most secret chemical-warfare establishment in this hemisphere." The chief security officer has been murdered. Dr. Baxter is missing. Dr. Oster is a marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global...