Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Distaste v. Panic. Inevitably, some pundits and politicos saw everything according to their own lights. A newspaper in Beirut had a familiar Arab reaction: "We consider that the dispute between the two blocs is a blessing to us. They could reach agreement only at our expense." And India's Jawaharlal Nehru characteristically declined to blame the summit breakdown on anyone ("All that I can do, first of all, is not get too excited"), but Indians in general only hoped that Russia was not now going to match Red China in bellicosity...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is "saddening," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, "that there are those who feel that they must take to the air waves because Congress is trying to work out some programs that will help people that need help. That is a peculiar motivation for panic." Congress, he rumbled, was not going to rubber-stamp "a program laid down by another branch of government...
Republicans got in a few volleys, too. Said Illinois' Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, when asked to comment on Lyndon Johnson's "panic" remark: "I am so far from panicky that it's not even funny. Never was I more complacent. Never was I more confident - strike out that word 'complacent.' " House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because...
...Humphrey's rabbity race was to say that Humphrey had no chance for the nomination anyway (or, as Roosevelt said, "A vote for Humphrey is a wasted vote") and that it was not winning him any new friends. Humphrey hinted that the Kennedy camp was showing signs of panic, claimed that he was getting offers of a deal to run for Vice President on a ticket with Kennedy. His stock reply: "Fine, go ask Jack if he'll be my Vice President...
Just before last Thanksgiving, the Health, Education and Welfare Department caused a panic in the cranberry market by claiming that a weed killer improperly used in some cranberry bogs might cause cancer in humans. The widely publicized alarm left 66% of the '59 crop still on the market. Last week the U.S. swallowed the indignant growers' sauce, promised to pay $10 million in indemnities for the nation's unsold, uncontaminated stocks of cranberries...