Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midmorning, panic was widespread. In Haiphong, all but soldiers and militia were ordered to evacuate; French Journalist Joel Henri saw "streams of children, old people and women walking along, carrying their belongings on bicycles." At 2:30 Sunday afternoon, the sirens wailed again in Haiphong. For more than an hour, 40 Navy jets from carriers wheeled around the city, pummeling warehouses, a huge truck park and nearby Kien An Airfield, where three MIG-17 fighters were destroyed on the ground. By the time the third attack had ended, the sky over Haiphong was streaked by the vapor trails...
...administration was not to be soothed, for Epps's reply contains, buried in the fourth paragraph of an otherwise sensible discussion concerning the distinction between a local convention of a national group and a national convention of a local group, a brief excursion into the twilight zone of panic and uncertainty: "I shall be grateful if you will let me know what is actually happening." This letter is also noteworthy for its seeming evasion (by insisting that rooms were not available) of a stand on the noble and enduring principle so bravely stated--in these days when academic values...
...panic was so great that during the retreat some drivers of armoured personnel carriers ran over government soldiers accompanying them, the unofficial report stated. The column, now about 11 miles south of An Loc, had been under siege for three days...
...performances he seemed repeatedly to be taking refuge in what he felt safest doing-a manic, tortured intensity. His first major movie role, as a junkie in last year's The Panic in Needle Park, was an impressive debut that seemed, nevertheless, predictable to those who had seen his theater work. The Godfather changed all that...
...sanitationmen within the bounds of 30-month contracts agreed upon by the police and firemen. DeLury balked, going after a 27-month contract instead, with more benefits and overtime provisions. He defends his position by saying that his men "do a production job--we don't wait for a panic button to respond." "The whole complement of sanitationmen is out on the streets every day. It's constant production work; a sanitation man walks an average of 14 miles a day, doing a job that has the highest rate of injuries in the United States next to logging...