Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learns that he has become the town's central industry. A monument to him is to be unveiled in the square and the Governor is coming. Cries the mayor in panic: "We have invested a fortune in your sleep. The whole town will be bankrupt." David's dilemma is clear. He can remain a hero only if he goes back to snoring. Or he can tell the truth and let the souvenirs fall where they may. He opts for the latter course, declaring portentously: "Too many temples have been built to trumped-up idols . . . Our voice must rise...
Plainly, the military academies have lots of company when it comes to cheating. Educators agree that intense pressure for better grades is at least partly to blame. An ill-prepared student may panic and copy from a classmate during a test simply to pass. More often, it seems, the cheater is not the marginal student but the one with aspirations for graduate school or law school...
Endless meetings. Panic. Conflicting advice on strategy. Confusion and disarray. That was the situation in Gerald Ford's White House as he faced the primary in Michigan this week, to be followed by elections next week in six Southern and Western states that are mostly bastions of strength for Ronald Reagan...
...government-definitely not. But we would like the Communist Party or the trade unions to commit themselves in some way to a joint program with the conventional parties to push through tax reforms, investment in the infrastructure, more employment, and so forth. I don't think we should panic about the Communists. Communist behavior depends to a great extent on what we do. If we panic, if industrialists get nervous and stop investment, if some people get out of the country, it makes the Communist position more authoritative; it gives the public the impression that the only stable force...
...There are no massacres or bloodbaths, no massive terrorist force buildups, no panic or hysteria, no queues of people leaving the country. Journalists can travel safely with no fears of bomb explosions." That was the confident message of a propaganda letter recently printed up by Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia for circulation abroad. Last week that confidence was somewhat shaken. Apparently slipping across the Mozambique border, black terrorists roamed 85 miles inside Rhodesia, killed three whites, wounded two, and severed the only direct railroad link to South Africa. It was the deepest penetration...