Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Health Services, in Cooperation with similar groups at Tufts, B.U. and M.I.T., has decided that there is no need to push the panic button. Flu epidemic scares come up every year and Prout has the whole scare as a "little bit of crying wolf." At any rate, the disease itself is not serious and usually for no more than four days...
...Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when he said: "If Khrushchev's reason was to spread panic among our people, then he has signally failed...
...panic mentioned in item 10 would occurs only if there were not enough "life boats" to go around. By trying to cut down on the number of shelters, SANE becomes a strong agent for the very bestiality it condemns...
...facts of life." If the upshot is a marriage while a girl is still in school, she often counts her education a success. "I NEVER, NEVER expected to leave without being married," writes a still unmarried Wellesley girl. Girls who get to be seniors without a man sometimes panic and hastily turn themselves into teachers, but the great majority keep cool and go on to marriage after graduation...
...panic engendered by a collision with an iceberg would destroy all vestiges of civilized human behavior. We shudder at the vision of one man shooting another for the possession of a "life" boat...