Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stronger Base. The stock market thus has plainly found its legs again, and its self-confidence. From the high it set in December 1961, it had fallen off gradually, and then abruptly in the near-panic of Blue Monday, May 28, 1962, before hitting bottom a month later at 535.76. Any courageous soul who bought one share of each of the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average on Blue Monday would have found his $1,727 investment worth $2,187 last week...
Packed in suitcases and hidden in the false bottoms of automobiles, lire are being smuggled out of Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight might lead to alarm or panic. In Italy it is recognized as only another ingenious ploy to cheat the tax collector. No one really worries, because the fleeing lira usually returns to Italy wearing a disguise...
...named for little Albert and Caroline. But before officially presenting the ship to Rainier, Shipbuilder Herman Kerstholt and 80 guests took it for a gala trial run in the North Sea. Ten miles offshore, smoke and flames suddenly lashed out of the engine room. An explosion sent passengers into panic, and since there were no lifeboats, only the timely arrival of rescuers prevented tragedy. When rescued, Builder Kerstholt burst into tears. Also upset, though not visibly tearful, was Rainier, who angrily bemoaned a two-month delay before the damaged vessel could be ready for her maiden voyage to the Mediterranean...
...this movie, Hero Wayne has at last found a way to deal with women that seems to satisfy him: he pretends they are men. That allows him, without compunction, to work off his panic and resentment in two->fisted horseplay. When the heroine (Elizabeth Allen) arrives at the Pacific island where Wayne runs a grog shop, he promptly plops her into the lagoon. Then he dumps her in a canoe, knocks her down in the surf, drags her to his Jeep. When she squeals, he sneers. Can't take it, huh? But next day she proves she can dish...
...commencement address, Adlai E. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations warned that "steady intelligence in command of the facts" is all we have to combat "panic reactions" in this time of great social upheaval...