Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moreover, further repression of an already militant group can only ensure continuing riots. And if the merchants feel that filling the Square with police is really the way back to the quaint comfortable Harvard Square that they say they want, then they have left rationality completely behind in their panic...
...love, honor and respect my father and mother, too, but I don't cremate them each time they happen to make contact with God's good earth. Why all the big panic about who wears star-studded trousers, red-and-white-striped bikinis, or displays flags superimposed with symbols of peace? Let us stand up for and preserve the ideals that this country and its flag represent, but please let's don't bow down and worship a piece of cloth as a false idol...
...elaborate spoofs of Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. Mort Sahl, carrying a rolled-up newspaper like a blunt weapon, had set almost academic standards for the stand-up comedian as social critic. Lenny Bruce, Salvationist manque, was preaching his credo of holy scatology and apocalypse, "trying to panic people into laughing," as Sahl...
...case against Frenkil. The jurors prepared a presentment that named Frenkil and half a dozen present and former Congressmen, including Long and Boggs, and cited 45 overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Submitting it to the judge, they asked that it be made public. Their action precipitated a panic. Lawyers for Frenkil and others, claiming only to represent "John Doe, Peter Poe and Richard Roe, et al.," petitioned the court to prevent publication of the document, which they felt would damage their clients. In response, Federal District Judge Roszel Thornsen steered a cautious middle course. He suppressed the grand...
...says. "The odds modestly favor an upturn in the second half of the year. Both fiscal and monetary policy have shifted from restraint to expansion." As Rinfret sees it, the Administration was forced to stop using these two main weapons against inflation in order to avoid a financial panic. Now he adds: "The only way left to fight inflation is with controls. Don't be surprised if the next move is direct intervention in the economy...