Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilsons' move was as thoughtfully preplanned as any other project in Park Forest. Unlike nearby Deerfield, which was thrown into panic at the sudden prospect of a Negro influx (TIME, Dec. 7), Park Forest years ago arranged a course of action for peaceful integration. As soon as it became known that Charles Wilson intended to move in, he was met by a seven-man Commission on Human Relations and questioned about his job, the size of his family, whether or not he was a member of any active pressure groups (he was not). Then two-man teams moved through...
...word. In winters he nearly froze, and when the summer heat beat down on his reeking pit, he almost suffocated. Yet only on darkest nights would he surface for air. One night, crawling out for fresh air, he saw crosses on the rooftops and fled back in panic, mistaking the new TV aerials for signs of doom. At last, when his younger brother married and the whole village reveled round him, Grisha under his dunghill cursed the day when cowardice induced him to be buried alive. He spent a few more months screwing up his courage, then surfaced...