Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harwell said, "There are a number of people in Mather and other places I've seen who have left because of academic panic," possibly after receiving "the devastating results of an hour exam...
...national defense and the evils of Big Government, yet has not excited the public. He permitted, and probably encouraged, Nelson Rockefeller to withdraw in 1976, but still did not appease conservatives. Says one of his political advisers: "The people in the Ford campaign seem reasonably confident. But I sense panic on the part of Ford's supporters on Capitol Hill. They're very discouraged and depressed. They're afraid that Reagan at the head of the ticket would take them all down to defeat, and they think it may already be too late for Ford to recover...
...Real Panic. Once sleek and salacious, the "Paris of the Middle East" is a wasteland. Since April, 75% of the national carnage has been in Beirut; at least 3,000 people have been killed, 6,000 wounded, in a city of 1,500,000. Those who managed to reach hospitals last week could rarely find an empty bed. They may have been better off on the floors, since continual sniper fire raked some wards. Water, food, medical supplies, gasoline and electricity were running low. Estimated property damage and revenue loss passed the $2 billion mark. Most international businesses and banks...
Stubbornly, Beirutis had continued to hope that somehow the madness would pass, that maybe the next ceasefire would not be shot down by the armed fanatics whose number seemed to be growing. Last week, reports TIME Correspondent William Marmon, "real panic gripped the city for the first time as the pattern of fighting changed abruptly and the remaining hopes were shattered. Previously, rival factions shot and shelled each other from fixed positions. The result was stalemate. Now leftist Moslem forces, spearheaded by a group called the Independent Nasserites, have launched an offensive to win a clear victory. Moving...
...adjectives like solid, clean, responsible, fair, sensible, and, over and over, orderly to present his vision of the city's salvation. These are simple words, ones that everyone understands; they share none of the exotic quality of the words applied to the city's present state (mirage, rescue, frighten, panic), and they are grounded firmly in an individual human scale. New York words have a huge order of magnitude, connoting sweeping events. Non-New York words are home truths, individual virtues...