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Word: panic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soothed by a beautiful stranger (Dany Saval) with a foreign accent, who calls herself Lyrae and can read his mind. Since the plane carries reading material of obviously greater interest (plane schedules, comic books, etc.), the hero concludes that Lyrae must be a Russian spy. In panic he calls the general and the general calls the "Federal Security Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Astronaughts & FBIdiots | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

March 23). "I feel the situation developed through ignorance of the problem and resulting panic." said Deke to Sparta's Mayor Ralph Osborne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronaut's Blast-Off | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Rose Macaulay died in 1958 at the age of 77, one of Britain's most distinguished ladies of letters, with some three dozen sharp, perceptive books to her credit. A Dame Commander of the British Empire, she was a witty, brittle bird of a woman who spread panic in the streets with her ancient auto, regularly bicycled down to bathe in London's Serpentine when she was in her 70s, and published a satirical bestseller (The Towers of Trebizond) when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for Burning | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Cigarette smokers, it is clear, do not panic easily. They are an emancipated lot, whose moral callous began to harden about the time they first took up the civilized comforts and were warned that smoking stunts the growth. In recent years, it's been easy for confirmed smokers to ignore mounting evidence indicating that cigarettes and cancer are closely related...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Live Modern | 3/12/1962 | See Source »

Since interference by dissidents or bungling by untrained or panic-stricken individuals could cripple a program's effectiveness, civil defense demands virtually universal support, the conference pointed out. Individual liberty might therefore be sacrificed to regimentation of practice drills, and private interests subordinated to the demands of public agencies, thus threatening basic values of a democratic society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Calls Shelter Program Possible Peril to Democratic Nation | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

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