Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government helicopters by then had begun dropping tear gas on the besieged holy place. In the great courtyard, the attackers were haranguing their hostages to proclaim Mohammed Abdullah al-'Utaibah the promised messiah. But they fled in panic to the upper floors of the mosque and its seven minarets when National Guard troops suddenly burst through the gates of the mosque and armored vehicles with artillery and machine guns quickly encircled the Ka'ba. To minimize damage to the mosque, the government had ordered its troops to move in with knives and to use them in hand...
...effort to cool tempers at home. Carter had previously asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to press deportation proceedings against any Iranian students who were residing illegally in the U.S. Though the White House emphasized that the President had not ordered a "roundup and mass deportation," the action caused panic among many of the 50,000 Iranian students in the U.S. and thousands of other Iranians who have fled to the U.S. in recent years for political reasons...
...scene sniffed acrid fumes leaking from one tanker that contained 81 tons of liquefied chlorine; if that car exploded, its contents could turn into a modern equivalent of the deadly fog at Ypres. Within hours, provincial authorities ordered the largest evacuation in Canadian history; with surpassing smoothness, and little panic, most of the city's inhabitants moved to temporary quarters in auditoriums, school halls and churches in the Toronto area. At week's end, a leak in the chlorine tanker had been patched and all of Mississauga's citizens had returned, albeit nervously, to their homes. Proud...
Purl is an example of postcrash syndrome among airline personnel: a deep trauma that combines survivor guilt, depression, rage and an array of physical symptoms ranging from digestive problems and hypertension to sleeplessness and heart ailments. Some survivors develop phobias or panic when they hear sounds that remind them of the crash, and many are so worn out by the continuing anguish that they say they are simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury...
Columnists' condescension toward Carter is widespread in Washington. Witness Clayton Fritchey: "President Carter says he doesn't 'panic in a crisis.' But that's not the problem. The problem is that he panics without a crisis." The sagacious George F. Will has reasoned that "the national interest" dictates that Carter should be eliminated from the 1980 presidential race, and as quickly as possible. If George Will had been old enough to pundit in 1948, would he have summoned the national interest against Harry Truman...