Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says one intelligence source, he handled liaison between the KGB and the Central Committee of the ruling Politburo. "It's caused a real body blow to the KGB," said Patrick Leahy, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of Yurchenko's defection. "They must be in sheer panic over there...
...when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became the celebrated radio voice of Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow knows!"); 23 when he touched off a national panic with his broadcast of a Martian invasion in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Invited to Hollywood to do pretty much as he pleased, he started out by creating one of the best films ever made, Citizen Kane, which he starred in, directed and partly wrote before...
Known as Smoot-Hawley after its legislative sponsors, the bill promptly fulfilled the worst fears of critics. A new panic seized the already battered stock market; the slide continued for two years. In raising import duties on scores of items, in some cases to 50%, the measure provoked angry retaliation by 25 of the nation's trading partners. U.S. exports fell by nearly two-thirds in just two years...
...Squads of masked and helmeted rescue workers scrambled desperately, looking for--and sometimes finding --sparks of life in a jumble of concrete and steel debris. There were moments of celebration as the squads retrieved a succession of newborn infants after days of burial. There were also 50 seconds of panic late in the week as a moderate aftershock caused buildings to sway but left little additional damage...
...performing in English, the first time she has done so onstage. Opening in Baltimore in two weeks and on Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former sex symbol. "I can't panic. I don't have the time." To make her task even more unaccustomed, she chose to play the spinsterish New Englander, Hannah, and turned down the saucier part of Maxine, the innkeeper. Does she miss those earlier seductive roles? "Time has passed," she says, seemingly without regret...