Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lisbon, the Salazar government spluttered denunciations of the "wicked act committed by this gang of pirates," and likened it to "the barbarian practices that made the Caribbean Sea an area of dishonor, which took centuries to clean up." Panic-stricken that a similar fate might be in store for the Santa Maria's sister ship, the Vera Cruz, which was en route to Brazil, Lisbon rushed ten secret servicemen by plane to Rio de Janeiro with orders to allow no visitors aboard when the Vera Cruz docked. The Portuguese government appealed to the U.S. and Britain to recapture...
...morning the first year we were married, Jack said to me, 'What food are you planning for the 40 guests we are having for luncheon?' No one had told me anything about it. It was 11 a.m., the guests were expected at 1. I was in a panic...
Sometimes Jackie shows signs of panic at the prospect of her own new frontier. "I'll get pregnant and stay pregnant," she told a friend, only half in jest. "It's the only way out." But when she considers the alternative-if Jack had lost the election-she surveys her fingernails as if ready to bite them, and admits that there are worse prospects than the White House. "How could you fill his life? If he had lost, he'd have been around the world three times and written three books. But it wouldn...
...radio contact had been broken off, the government assumed the worst. As for the Communist "invasion" itself, that story apparently originated when two battalions of North Vietnamese gathered near the border one dark night, set up an eerie howl and fired their weapons in all directions, touching off blind panic at the Laotian garrison in the nearby town of Nonget. It all brought memories of July 1959, when Laos cried invasion but could not produce a single Viet Minh prisoner when the U.N. sent an inspection team...
...stapleages have kooky titles: Once is not Custom, Miss Brown to You, Panic in the Harem. Within a few days after the current exhibition opened at the Galerie Arnaud, more than half of Downing's compositions were sold...