Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cigar chomper with a penchant for corny office signs (he has a "Panic Button" near his desk, and a sign that reads ARE YOU HERE WITH THE SOLUTION, OR ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM?), Hank Barnes has already told the New York City traffic department that he will require both a day and a night driver for at least the next six months...
...tempore, and Mann seconded the motion." Dyer, Bocklet and Mann are all Amex stock specialists, that is, men assigned to trade in certain stocks to keep their price from leaping or sliding abnormally (New York Stock Exchange specialists laid out $100 million in one day to cushion a panic price break after Eisenhower's heart attack). In the case of the American Exchange, said SEC, there was "a concentration of power in the hands of a small self-perpetuating group dominated by specialists," resulting in "manifold and prolonged abuses by specialists and floor traders...
This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
...Doolittle took off from the carrier deck of the U.S.S. Hornet at the head of 16 B-25s. Though the raid on Tokyo did little actual damage, Toland reports that Japanese officials were astonished to find that their capital was so vulnerable, concluded that the nation was likely to panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle of the Coral Sea, in which a U.S. task force sank a Japanese carrier, first major ship to be sunk...
During the relatively quiet years, an average of 600 a day crossed over. In the weeks of Torschlnsspanik (gate-closing panic) just before the Wall went up Aug. 13, the number rose to an astounding 1,700 a day. Last month, defying the walls, watchtowers, guards and dogs, about 860 ran the gantlet to West Germany, about half through divided Berlin and half across the zonal border. For October the total figure was even higher: about...