Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south, along the 1,400-mile border between India and the western wing of Pakistan, where the two armies have deployed about 250,000 men. Civilians were fleeing from the border areas, and residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad were in a virtual state of siege and panic over day and night harassment raids by buzzing Indian planes...
...theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief in intelligent life on Mars was dramatized by H.G. Wells in his novel The War of the Worlds and carried into contemporary times by another Welles named Orson, whose 1938 radio broadcast of the novel caused widespread panic...
...Mexico by Alexandro Jodorowsky, a Charles-Mansonish-looking, sincere, 40-year-old Chilean of Polish-Russian parentage who was once a member and composer for Marcel Marceau's mime-troupe. Between TV, talk shows he now runs a Mexico City theatre and writes a comic strip "Fabulas Panicas" ("Panic Fables") for a newspaper in Mexico City. Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and is the hero of the film...
...Vance, "like a kick in the groin." In the Deep South most folks criticize Kennedy for having an unmarried girl in his car, which offends Southern Baptist fundamentalism. In the more moderate upper South, folks talk about Teddy's abdication of responsibility by swimming away from his duty in panic...
...White Panic. The trouble began on Saturday night, Nov. 13, at the enlisted men's club. Tension flared at closing time when a white civilian bus driver was overheard to say, "I don't want no niggers on my bus." A group of blacks descended on another bus and ejected a white couple, but they in turn were run off by a black military policeman. Later the black soldiers began filing back to their barracks; their number grew as they paraded past the officers' quarters. Then an off-duty white MP who found himself driving in their...