Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panic...
...decision to return to the political process is an admission that at least in this case, policy cannot be made in the streets-or on the commons. The Nixon Administration did not panic in the face of the largest demonstrations in American history; it ignored them, even attacked them...
...Having watched myself respond to my children's flirtation with peril in sheer panic," Author-Critic Leslie Fiedler wrote in his book Being Busted, "as if I had never run risks myself, I grew ashamed." The "peril" was drugs. A Buffalo judge admitted portions of Fiedler's book into evidence at a trial in which the critic and his wife were convicted of allowing their sons and friends to smoke marijuana in their home. The jury chose to ignore Busted's preface, which warns the reader that "the following account is more parable than history...
...Since their highs of last year, the paper value of Kerkorian's controlling holdings in International Leisure, Western Air Lines and MGM have shrunk by some $497 million to an estimated $147 million. But Kerkorian has never been known to panic at a run of bad luck. He paid only $4 each for his 5.4 million shares of International Leisure, and even after a 79% drop in market value, he is still nearly $73 million ahead...
...four men from NASA continued explaining what went wrong, nodding to one another, restraining panic in their faces, blanching, passing on information to the hungry American public... in absolute silence...