Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronic gadgets, and harried by word that average admission standards will soon rise by one full year. Much worse, his cost for four years at a residential college may soon double to the price of a couple of deluxe Cadillacs-$16,000 or more. Little wonder that in his panic to get into college-and in his wild search for a scholarship-his mind boggles. Result: 60% of those who do become freshmen drop out of college. They choose the wrong school-for them-and have to start over again elsewhere. The cost to everyone is incalculable...
...plain businessman of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back except that he "lacked the moral courage" to give the order. When he discovered that the enemy forces had abandoned their position, he learned his first lesson: "The other fellow had just as much reason to be afraid...
When even that failed to buy the insurgents off, Delouvrier caved in emotionally. He had had only seven hours' sleep in five days. In a speech that was sometimes eloquent but more often rang like a wild cry of panic in the night ("I myself have been struck by paralysis, by anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems...
...usual in the wild confusion of Indonesian affairs, the situation was desperate but not serious. Sending police into shops to stop further price boosts, the government blamed the drop-off mainly on Chinese panic buying. Actually, the government has gone on financing the deficit incurred fighting the 1958 rebellion by printing more rupiahs than the exports of Indonesia's rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that...
Most people had an easy time with the first dozen puzzles, with such teasers as Troy, Bronx, Albany and Ithaca. But after the second week, some of the less hardy began to panic; that's when the cultural crisis...