Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of the Boston toll road-freeway controversy has been one of sudden compromise, of veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
...seems to know what happened next. Some said an African went berserk, and his wild screams set off a chain reaction of panic among the jampacked whites. Whatever started it, there were shouts and screams from the road outside, then pistol shots. The mourners in the cemetery ran wildly over the graves. Men picked up sticks, clubs and stones, began cursing and crying, "Mata Todos!" (Kill them...
...wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The College Panic," a canvass of harassed admissions directors, nervous parents and students...
...waiting on tables, but as part of their lives." Death in the End. Most Sheridan Avenue families do not want the Mc Kinleys as part of their lives. A petition circulates asking the Negro family to sell and move out. Venal white and colored real estate brokers spread panic. But from their first good-neighbor visit to the McKinleys, the Charleses try to live out the ideal of tolerance. Sally Charles is alternately warm and terrified, but her husband Stephen is a doctrinaire liberal who sternly instructs his daughter Katie: "If Scotty shows any signs of being interested...