Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of the picture was not to frighten but to reassure. Along Britain's coast there are 20 Thor squadrons of three missiles each, the warheads of most in position. But they cannot be fired by someone pushing a button in a panic. Under the terms of a 1958 agreement, the British man the missiles while the U.S. has control of the warheads. The keys symbolize and make concrete that joint control. Actually, there are two sets of keys, one held by a U.S. officer, another by an R.A.F. officer. There are three keys in each...
...creative minds on the eve of its approval by the convention. It is unlikely, for instance, that Nixon asked for a stronger civil rights plank simply because Senator Kennedy selected Senator Johnson as his running mate. Shrewd as Kennedy's choice seems to be, it is hardly enough to panic Nixon so much that he will lose all hope of winning a single Southern state in November. Nixon may have been at a loss for words last spring--but he was inarticulate in an attempt to resist all the pressures being applied by his allies, and not because...
...cramped as the cabin of a spaceship, Huntley and Brinkley muffled all organ tones, were obviously so complementary a pair-Brinkley the aperitif, Huntley the cordial-that neither could have done so well alone. They relaxed and let history write itself: while the CBS team hinted at a panic slide away from Kennedy, H. & B. refused to make artificial excitement of what their calculations told them was artificial news...
...feet, and new lakes were formed. Volcanic ash rose 23,000 ft. into the sky. Seismic waves washed away 630 of the 800 citizens of the fishing village of Queilen. In the inferno of lava, smoke, fire, water, avalanche and death, the helpless victims first scurried around in panic, then subsided into resigned silence. They worked feverishly to claw the dead and injured from the rubble...
...fact was that, because of U.S. strength, Khrushchev's actions could be judged in Western Europe with distaste rather than in panic. The quieter hope of U.S. friends abroad was that the U.S. would supply leadership at least equivalent to its undoubted power...