Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From all over free Asia last week, capital flooded into Hong Kong. In the island colony itself, bank withdrawals ran more than ten times normal rates-but not out of panic. Among Asian investors, the rush was on to buy the first public stock offering of the most powerful British trading company east of Suez: 129-year-old Jardine, Matheson & Co. By week's end the 900,000-share secondary issue had been oversubscribed 56 times, and Jardines' stock, which had been distributed at $2.78, was changing hands in private deals...
...Stones, who go in for big disasters (they bought and sank the old Ile de France to make The Last Voyage), also record the panic of an entire town, collapse a real train and a real timber trestle "420 ft. long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself...
...made a sobering report to the nation. "There is no life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic." Then he went to the Shah, had Parliament dissolved, and got power to rule by decree. Teheranis demonstrated joyously and danced in the streets...
...filthy, fetid sewers that coursed like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...
With time getting short, repeated wild passing by the Indians showed signs of Dartmouth panic. But at 5:50 an Indian shot nipped the nets, making it 8 to 6. Midfielder Joe Prahl and a Dartmouth attackman traded tallies in ten seconds to boost the score to 9 to 7 with less than five minutes remaining...