Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the city's seedy Tenderloin district to demonstrate that the streets were safe. Exuding the slithery self-confidence that marks his campaigning, the mayor passed out roses to women, stopped to link arms with a grinning transvestite, and reaffirmed his claim that there was "no need for panic...
There is no panic at the White House or among the mountain vistas in Vail. Administration officials see their man getting stronger personally, staying steady, riding out these peaks and valleys. Yet here and there in the Ford retinue there is concern that the old Nixon problem of underestimating the intelligence and awareness of the people is creeping back into the White House. There are many thoughtful observers who feel the nation wants and expects more change in society than the President can conceive-even in his most imaginative moments...
...argument seems to have won over Premier Rabin at least. "I do not view an agreement as dangerous," Rabin told a group of settlers at a kibbutz in the Negev Desert. "Anyone trying to define a proposed withdrawal as a disaster for the state is only sowing panic." Moreover, he pointed out, even if the new agreement goes through, Israeli forces will still be an average 94 miles to the west of the 1967 border...
...doesn't barter in cliches like "That hall had eyes on it" (a favorite of Sox announcer Ken Harrelson), or "You have to get hits to win ball games" (Kubek/Gowdy). Scully coins his own phrases; once when a player was trapped in a rundown and froze for an instant, panic on his face, Scully said, "he looks like a rabbit caught in a set of headlights." And Scully used binoculars to read lips during arguments with umpires. So you always bring a radio to Dodger Stadium (something considered mildly sacreligious in the Fenway Park bleachers...
...York at ransom to correct a racial humiliation. He bombs fire stations, dominates the tabloids, and threatens to detonate the Morgan property if he is not avenged. As in Attica, a "representative" is sent in, Booker T.Washington, but the ragtime man is adamant. He has put America into a panic--if this can happen, what next? They can't let him give the orders. Everything is out of kilter, the world is topsy-turvy, the granite is crumbling underfoot. They send a telegram to Morgan. He wires back: Give him what he wants and hang...