Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oran itself, Europeans were in a panic over the mysterious disappearance of several hundred friends and relatives, reportedly kidnaped by the Moslems as suspected members of the Secret Army. Questioned about the missing Europeans, an F.L.N. army officer said curtly, "Consider them all dead. Forget about the dead, as we Moslems have our 2,000,000 victims, and think of the future...
Education also prepares one to meet "the uncertain future of a world of disturbance" by giving the student self-reliance. Maturity can be defined, Demos stated, as "the ability to encounter uncertainty and insecurity without panic...
...stem the panic buying, the regime dispatched extra food allotments into the city, reassuringly announced that warehouse supplies were ample. Few shoppers were convinced, especially after city officials set limits to individual purchases...
...wore on, selling panic buffeted the widely held blue chips: IBM fell 37½ to 361, Du Pont 12½ to 202½, A.T.&T. 11 to 100⅝. So irrepressible was Blue Monday's selling pressure that more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...
...Dream of Freedom. One result of the week's unnerving slide was an outburst of resentful complaints at Wall Street's ability to panic stockholders everywhere. Protested Belgium's leading financial paper, L'Echo de la Bourse: "Nothing in our industrial situation justified an adjustment of such importance." Zurich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung wished that Swiss stock markets "would show some sense of emancipation" from Wall Street. But with the international financial community becoming ever more intertwined, one man's aches are surely going to continue to be another's pains...