Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUDGING BY THE PANIC surfacing in newspapers and magazines across the country, the press and the public face the gravest threat ever to the right to print and the right to know. Part of this panic is based on illusion: part is grounded on dangerous truth...
...There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky to get my clothes off. Exhausted. Totally exhausted. But that tremendous practice tempo would prevail in the games. Coach Wooden's words were always the same: 'Don't panic, keep your poise, they'll break.' They did, too. And, heck, how many games did we win on pure condition? No one was in better shape...
...Panic. Like the President, the CEA stressed the need for economic restraint in order to prevent greater inflation. It said that the pace of the nation's boom should be slowed in the second half of the year by a combination of budget hold-downs and a less rapid expansion of money supply. Still, its projections for the full year add up to a powerful advance in every sector: gross national product should rise about $115 billion, to $1,267 billion; real growth of 6¼% will top even the 6½% of 1972; inflation will be no higher...
...Triomphe and an exchange of kind words, along with the highest French and German decorations. At the final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...
Around 1876-77, just as advertising was getting up to eight pages an issue, the roof caved in on the already anemic finances of the paper. Editors were forced to pay the printer's bills out of their own pocket for a time, as the delayed results of the Panic of 1873 hit Cambridge. "Our subscription list was very small, as the students could not easily afford to subscribe," wrote a business editor of the period: "The advertisers knew The Crimson was in trouble, and consequently were unwilling to throw away their money, fearing the paper would fail...