Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panic. Such was Wall Street's reaction to the death of the President, and such is the panic that usually grips the financial community when an unforeseen disaster hits the Street. But the market also has a history of quickly recovering such losses-and businessmen of recovering their composure. Shortly after the shock began to ease, both began to appraise how the death of John F. Kennedy, and the succession of Lyndon Johnson to the presidency, would affect the nation's economy. Most businessmen seemed convinced that the U.S. economy is currently too strong to be upset...
...midnight panic swept through the crowd at Carlisle; girls screamed, sirens wailed. Four thousand stood all night at Newcastle, faces pinched and grim in a drenching rain. Fifty bobbies were needed to fight the crush at Hull in Yorkshire. "Beatlemania," as Britons call the new madness, was striking everywhere, and last week the Queen Mother herself confronted the four young Liverpudlians responsible. There on the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater stood a wild rhythm-and-blues quartet called the Beatles, and there across the moat of Establishment faces sat the Queen Mother. "Those in the cheaper...
...Brandeis senior said yesterday that the campus is "about to be seized with panic." He charged that the university police, aiding in the investigation, are responsible for wide-spread fear. Apparently they summoned students for questioning yesterday directly from classes, rather than contacting them at their rooms...
...than to distribute it." U.S. General Lucius Clay backed him, and throughout a grim winter of rising prices and shortages, Erhard kept up Seelenmas-sagen (soul massages), in the form of radio speeches and newspaper articles. Over and over he predicted: "Prices will start to drop in the spring." Panic buying trailed off, production rose and prices did fall...
...professor will write a paper for you if you just give him a chance," says a Berkeley student tip sheet. "Take in a draft or outline, and tell him you are having trouble with it; then take his criticisms and comments to heart. This will eliminate midnight panic and at least one grade's worth of errors...