Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test, President Kennedy flew off to his. summer home at Hyannisport. There, over the Labor Day weekend, he relaxed with his family, loaded 18 of the clan's small fry onto a golf cart and drove off to the candy store. Obviously, if Nikita Khrushchev had tried to panic John Kennedy, he had missed the mark...
Behind their new wall, the Communists were busy stamping out the unrest that had swept the nation ever since the Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate...
...cloying scene wherein the lovers (Jeanne Moody as Lady Chatterley, Walter Brown as Gamekeeper Mellors) decorate one another with garlands, Mellors started to slide out of bed and stopped short, paralyzed and fluffing his lines. In a play whose major theme is that bodies should not be embarrassing, his panic was caused by the discovery that his shirt was out of reach...
What a disgraceful memory to look back on! I read with deep mortification our treatment of the Japanese-American community during World War II. It proves that in panic our normal feelings are transformed into unreasonable forces. We must all bear the shame of our ignorant doings...
...Eastern Panic. As the refugee flow soared higher and higher, a U.S. Air Force Convair droned up the 110-mile corridor from West Germany one day last week and landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. Into the hot sun stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, to clasp the welcoming hand of Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt. For a few hours, both could forget that they are rivals in the campaign for the fall elections. "I have come here in a moment of crisis," declared Adenauer. "I intend to show that the Federal German Government and I personally...