Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have been a textbook coup. The obvious dissidents were carted off to jail. The radio stations broadcast the news calmly, and there was no panic in the streets. But the colonels had miscalculated in one vital area: most of the Guardia remained loyal to the tough, personable 40-year-old general, who had promoted many of the junior officers...
Some of the loopholes were deliberately allowed to stay open, authorities admit. Federal Reserve officials feared that if they had closed every gap in the regulations, some banks might have failed. In a banking system based on confidence, that might have touched off a financial panic, something that the Federal Reserve is sworn to prevent. Still, Board Chairman Bill Martin admitted to Congress that the "safety valve" had become "an escape hatch through which restraints are being avoided." The banks also flooded the country with new credit cards, which stimulated consumer spending and certainly did not reduce
This triumph appeared to give the Bruins momentum, but Crimson coach Bill Brooks did not panic. He put two backstrokers, one breaststroker, and one reluctant freestyler, Ackerman, into the freestyle relay, the final event. This combination fell behind early and failed to come back giving Brown...
...they'd been left out of the royal social schedule. To mollify them, Charles dropped in on a student dance at their club in Valletta. Someone pulled the main fuse, all the lights went out and the Prince's security agents burst into the hall in a panic. No need to worry. The lights went back on to show a grinning Charles being carried about on the shoulders of his cheering hosts...
...date of their births- Sept 14- had come up first in Richard Nixon's draft sweepstakes, but it was not until 335 numbers had been picked that Robert S. Cartright '71 and L Gaunce Lewis '71 began to panic...