Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's commodities markets, where speculators have recently bid up prices to heights undreamed of only a year ago, to gyrate widely. On Thursday, prices for major grains and soybeans were "down the limit"-they dropped as far as trading rules permitted in a single day. The panic seemed to substantiate Nixon's assessment of grain speculation as a root cause of food inflation...
Naturally, any mention of automation in the electronics field immediately arouses suspicions about snooping and invasions of privacy. Already, local opposition to Harvard's installation of electronic cables in its steam tunnels has begun. People Against National Identity Cards (PANIC) led the opposition last month. The group convinced the City Council to ask Harvard to stop laying the cables at least temporarily so a hearing can be held...
...points and many others are true. Marketing fiction, more and more, is a matter of big money and high pressure sales, with no guarantee that high-quality, slow-selling products will eventually prove more durable in literature than they do elsewhere in American life. But book lovers need not panic right away. For the late spring has brought as rich and various a collection of fiction (and fact) as anybody has seen in years...
While there are still problems among the staff, he said that reports of panic and paralysis were "exaggerated...
...layers of clothing, ragged protective armor that Max sheds in a perilously symbolic striptease. It will not do for White to have Lion just freak out; he must grow blank and rigid right on the stone paws of a lion that decorates a Detroit fountain. Director Schatzberg (The Panic in Needle Park, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) bats out these sorry epiphanies and maudlin metaphors with the eager aplomb of a rookie swatting fungoes...