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Word: panic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panic & Fire. On a street of old brownstone houses in Brooklyn a man looked up and saw "a large bolt of lightning." In a house on Staten Island, across the Narrows from Brooklyn, a housewife heard a noise that sounded like a "thousand dishes crashing from the sky." As she watched, the TWA Connie, carrying 44 passengers and crewmen, crashed to earth near by. Seconds later, a broken and torn DC-8 jet, which had been United Air Lines' proud Flight 826, bound for Idlewild from Chicago with 84 people, fell out of the sky into Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Air | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Pont Show with June Allyson (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx, in a rare dramatic role, as a death-dogged deaf-mute in Silent Panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Crimson's own "cool customer," guard Joe Deering, has been a steadying influence in times of panic, and has racked up 47 points in four games, mostly on accurate jump shots...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: High-Scoring, Undefeated B.C. Quintet Varsity Basketball Team to Encounter | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

...after Lamar's nine-year-old son takes a dip. His wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites in order to purchase their homes at distress prices and resell to Negroes at a fat profit. Before Peaceable Lane lives up to its ironic name, Matt, Lamar and the others lose more than property values, but gain something like a good conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Minor observations: Professor Riesman's statement that the men who produced the Daedalus symposium on arms control were "mad rationalists" Is incorrect, dangerously misleading, detrimental to his cause, and symptomatle of the under-current of panic which has affected some of our best minds. We have the good images: We need good ideas. The fall 1960 issue of contains Ideas in rich profusion. Professor Riesman's speech did not. His upon the importance of the virility age" In the American male, and its sense in American Motherhead, factors in our foreign policy, seems little everdone. He is correct, however about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Discusses National 'Image,' Asks Harvard Course in Disarmament | 12/9/1960 | See Source »

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