Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shalom, Captain Freudenberg ordered all watertight doors closed. "We stopped immediately after the collision," he said. "There was no panic, not the crew and not the passengers. Then we heard the cries of men in the water. We knew it was none of our people. We lowered lifeboats to search for them." The Shalom's lifeboats picked up five of the tanker's crew...
...history teacher in Indiana says that she hates to teach the Grover Cleveland period - the time of civil-service reform, the Interstate Commerce Act, the Populist revolt, the panic of 1893, and the first attempt at a federal income tax - "because nothing happened." Another teacher, asked to ex plain the Monroe Doctrine, replied: "That was our attitude toward Europe plus Europe's attitude toward us." American history is taught badly, and teachers, rather than books or equipment, are mostly to blame. So say three Indiana University history professors who witnessed classroom performance in junior and senior high schools throughout...
...whether to tell a patient that he is dying. "Much depends," says the University of California's Dr. Alexander Simon, "on the attitude of the family and the patient's own attitude. There are some whom I would not tell about imminent death because they would panic." Another U. of C. psychiatrist, Dr. Robert D. Wald, believes that the opposite situation is more common: "The assumption is that people don't want to die. From my experience, I believe that-more often than is generally realized-people reach a point where they are willing...
This unholy trinity constitutes the Nova Mob, a sort of celestial Cosa Nostra, and the book begins with "total disaster now on tracks" for earth, and "the whole planet absolutely flapping hysterical with panic." Any reader who hopes to learn in the end whether the Nova Mob outwits the efforts of Has san's Nova Police to save the world reveals a hidebound, unhip fixation with the old plotted fiction...
...without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens to idle Britain's whole automotive industry. He was promptly slapped with a slander suit by the Hardy Spicer management while Sir Alec chortled "panic...