Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial turnabout for Frost came during an agreed-upon seven-day Easter break in the interviewing. It was then that his staff was close to panic. Frost later conceded that he was "genuinely daunted before Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went...
South Africa's 4.3 million whites (out of a total population of 25 million) are not in a state of panic. But as these newspaper advertisements suggest, there are signs of growing unease. Throughout the country, more than 150,000 new firearms licenses were issued last year, bringing the total to a remarkable 1.25 million. In the northern reaches of the country, near the Rhodesian border, white farmers are also equipping themselves with walkie-talkie radios. To the east, along the Mozambican frontier, others are clearing the bush and attempting to guard against terrorist infiltration...
...worst possible solution. "Had the media tried to suppress the story of the hostages in Washington," argues Elie Abel, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, "the danger to the public could have been greater. There was evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good, it's better than rumors, which are generally horrible." TV Newsman Eric Sevareid noted it was an "odd irony that it was the absence of publicity that drove Khaalis...
...year-old Harvard-educated son, Francis (Robert Picardo). To make the culture gap wider, two of Francis' friends drop in unexpectedly from Cambridge, a brother-sister duo of unblemished Wasp credentials-or "white people" in Papa's olive-pure lingo. Francis goes into a panic of sexual ambivalence. The sister (Carol Potter) is crazy about him and Francis is queer for her brother (Reed Birney), or so he fears. What ensues, with no little assistance from some wacky neighbors, is a zinging display of comic fireworks, most of which explode underfoot...
...town looked as though an air raid had hit it," TIME's Richard Gross cabled that relatively few buildings were actually flattened. "Most of those that were damaged had their roofs or top floors shaken loose. The rubble bombarded residents, who fled to the streets in panic. Motorists, not knowing where to flee, drove around in circles for hours in panic, creating horrendous traffic jams in a city where most people are too poor to afford cars. Yet U.S. embassy officials expressed surprise that the damage had been so light, considering the intensity of the quake...