Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part from patriotism, as he is doing in his well-known campaign to free American war prisoners in Viet Nam. "It was something I could do and something I ought to do," he told TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos. "There was a situation ripe for investor panic...
...turned out that the warning center, which regularly transmits a taped test message to the news-service wires, had inadvertently sent an actual warning tape. To unstick the panic button and resolve the confusion, the center finally got through the prearranged code signal canceling the alert. Quite unintentionally, it sounded a sardonically witty note: CANCEL MESSAGE SENT AT 09:33 EST. MESSAGE AUTHENTICATOR: IMPISH, IMPISH...
...test of the team under pressure. The crowd was large, and every Penn point on another court sounded like a game won. Harvard had to play the first four games as though they were down, 3-0, in the other matches, but there was never any sign of panic or desperation...
...slack in the economy has also left its mark. Even in the elite schools, the fear of not finding a job this June runs high. Among seniors in liberal arts, this fear verges on panic. IBM, for example, plans to hire fewer than 50 humanities majors out of the 500 students it intends to recruit this year. Because of the general belt tightening in education, graduate students face similar bleak prospects. One future Harvard Ph.D. in English sent resumes to 108 colleges, was interviewed by only eleven, and received one offer?from the American University in Beirut...
...being in the way. The Guardsmen had been given a focus for their anger, given live ammunition, and told to take care of the situation. No one can contend that they shot cold-bloodedly, taking out their anger like the hardhats. Undoubtedly they fired in blind, tired, nervous panic. But the shells had been loaded and the powder primed very carefully in Washington and Columbus...