Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mission was a complete flop. The idea had been conceived by an imperial general staff still smarting from General Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raid. To retaliate, the Japanese hatched a plan to set the Oregon forests afire; they expected that the flames would spread to the cities and panic the entire West Coast. To carry out the dangerous mission, the planners picked Fujita, a seasoned Geta pilot with ten years' naval service and more than 3,000 flying hours behind...
...Marine detachments had been rushed to Thailand to help protect the vital left bank of the Mekong River from the Communist menace. Yet the Reds, since their overwhelming victory at Nam Tha two weeks ago, have been strangely quiet. The Laotian river town of Houei Sai, evacuated in panic after the fall of Nam Tha, was reoccupied by 300 skittish Royal Laotian Army troops. If anything, the Pathet Lao had retreated, not advanced. With Soviet Russia giving at least verbal agreement to the U.S. policy of creating a neutral Laos, it was apparently time once again to bring together...
Then on Monday, May 14, came what Wall Streeters hopefully called "the selling climax." In one furious hour during the morning, selling reached near-panic proportions. The index went into a 14-point tailspin to a low of 626. The highspeed Teletype tape that reports New York Stock Exchange transactions was so swamped that it fell 34 minutes behind-its worst performance in nearly 30 years...
...neutralists, India's Prime Minister Nehru told his Parliament: "I am not here to blame either party, but I beg and appeal to all the nuclear powers to refrain from these tests while the Geneva conference is on." Cairo's Algumhuria wrote: "As the world cried in panic from Soviet explosions in Moscow a year ago, it does cry in panic today from the Washington explosions...
...investor must watch for undervalued shares of companies with strong profit potentials. A minority of Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic; what they gloomily expect is month after tedious month during which stock prices mill around endlessly in the trading range-never crashing into the cellar, but never making new highs...