Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students in a panic who don't want to bail out can always consult the Bureau of Study Counsel, where private tutoring for specific courses is available. For some reason, though, the Bureau's workload, fairly heavy through the year, does not significantly increase as exams approach...
...evacuees 70 miles down the snaking Saigon River past the muzzles of enemy guns to Vung Tau. For obvious reasons, details of the plan were a closely kept secret. The sight of 5,000 Vietnamese being hauled away in a single barge could set off exactly the kind of panic in Saigon that Ambassador Martin feared. Worse yet, as one evacuation planner fretted, "we might see 5,000 Vietnamese blown right out of the water...
There were other traces of panic. Newspapers were crammed with notices reading "Xe ban " (car for sale) and "Nha ban " (house for sale), and though both cars and houses were selling at one-sixth their value of just a month ago, there were still no takers. Women filled barrels with dirt and sand to be used as roadblocks. Thousands of troops strolled aimlessly through the city, as though whole divisions had been given leave at once. Paratroopers in jump boots and camouflaged fatigues were everywhere, cadging cigarettes from Americans: "You give me smoke, mister...
...Saigon, "ARVN has probably the worst morale of any army since the collapse of the French in World War II. In three weeks they have been put through general retreats, separated from their own units and officers, walked and fought their way down half the country, survived mass panic and mutinies, and now they are being asked to fight again to save their capital city from total defeat...
...House Senior Sibling program, the freshmen at the Quad have experienced much less "culture shock" in adjusting to Harvard than have their isolated contemporaries in the Yard. We have found that the simple realization not only that one's problems are not unique (all freshmen discover that, and many panic), but more importantly, that others have been able to solve them satisfactorily, is immensely supportive...