Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precipitate psychosis in perhaps one out of 300 cases, but only in "those who were about to crack anyway." Attacks of anxiety occur in a small percentage of cases, but the panic is transitory; it disappears when the victim is assured that nothing is seriously wrong with...
...soldiers have been training with rubber dinghies along the canal, in clear sight of the Israelis, and air raid drills were staged in Cairo. The Israelis also went out of their way to show that they are prepared for any eventuality. "Don't fear and don't panic if the Egyptians start the fighting again," Premier Golda Meir told the nation. "We are ready for them...
...high average of 1968. Within the past two weeks, the N.Y.S.E. has recorded both its busiest day (21,681,000 shares) and second busiest day in history; total volume last week rose above 100 million shares for the first time. This gigantic volume has been associated with neither a panic nor a wild speculative bout, but with a steady price advance that last week lifted the Dow-Jones industrial average seven points to a close of 868, the highest in more than 18 months. The index has recovered two-thirds of its losses between the December 1968 high...
Before long, TIME Correspondent Stan Cloud reported, "great walls of orange flame leapt into the moonlit sky, and explosion after explosion sent showers of pyrotechnic sparks into the air." On the airport road. Cloud saw "panic-stricken refugees, clutching children and personal possessions, streaming away from the holocaust. In a field a few hundred yards from the airport, hundreds of them huddled in the predawn darkness while the false sunset of the fire blazed before them. They watched the sky as if it were some huge motion-picture screen...
Through the early part of the year, inflation psychology kept its grip on the minds of investors and businessmen. Then, in the space of a month, two events turned the mood from hope to gloom and brought the nation closer to financial panic than at any time since the 1930s...