Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frightening kind of experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...
...were 14 per cent higher than those for the class of '67. Although the stated deadline for applications is Jan. 1, the committee last year accepted 830 applications from then through June. Glimp predicted that the number of late applications will decline this year because the "college panic" has spurred students to apply earlier...
...deserted night, when the hours are small and panic is huge, Erie begins his hour-long self-sell monologue. The spiel sounds like a matter of life and death, because it is. The air is never airy in O'Neill. It is obdurate and oppressive, and his characters slash at it and through it with fast talk, sweet talk, crying talk, any kind of talk. It is a poet's speech-not that O'Neill could ever write a poetic line, but in the sense that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express...
...backfiring truck threw cops into a panic. At the climax of the demonstration, an explosion-a real one-resounded on the water side of the sleek, glass-skinned building as a 9-lb. shell splashed into the East River just 200 yds. away. In a weed-strewn lot on the opposite bank, 900 yds. away, police later found a 3.5-in. Army bazooka, still aimed at the U.N., with a Cuban flag taped on the barrel...
Tuxedos & Secrecy. The bankers twisted a few arms, carefully kept excitement out of their voices to ensure that foreign bankers got no chance impression of panic, and made occasional use of what is known in Washington as "the crossruff": the practice of getting someone to join a party by telling him someone else is coming in. The need for secrecy was so important that in the midst of negotiations, Roosa even donned a tuxedo in the office and went off to a scheduled piano recital at the Polish embassy lest anyone suspect by his absence what was afoot. He kept...