Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This may be a bad time to add to your burden, but we have always been candid with each other. The capital is beginning to panic. There is good economic news, and there seems to be nothing we can do to stop it. Lord knows we've tried. Next thing you know, peace will be breaking out. For a city devoted to trouble, good news can mean disaster, even unemployment...
Someone will do it. Some rube of an American photographer, strangling in the only necktie he owns, will shout, "Hey, Queen!" Some reporter, his thought processes numbed by majesty, will panic and address her first, which is Not Done, and then compound his blunder by asking her views on Prince Andrew's American girlfriend, former Soft-Porn Actress Koo Stark. Somebody will break commonly observed protocol?royals are not to be photographed taking nourishment?and shoot a picture of her doing the unthinkable to a Parker House roll...
...decline in world oil prices. On Jan. 17, Minister of Internal Affairs Alhaji Ali Baba announced that the alien workers, most of them illegal entrants to black Africa's most populous state (85 million), had two weeks to leave the country. The suddenness of the decree sparked a panic among the Ghanaians and some 700,000 other foreign workers from Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon and Chad...
...friendship. Says a U.S. analyst: "We don't really see these two agreeing on anything very significant. But we sure don't want them to, either." Even if the Soviets and the Chinese move closer, there will be plenty of warning. "The U.S. does not have to panic or go courting cravenly," says a U.S. diplomat. "We expect no dramatic changes. And those who are apprehensive should realize this will proceed slowly, and not necessarily inimically to U.S. interests...
...news sent everybody into a panic, especially Mark's poor parents, who had never been out of Omaha," Salem says. "Seeing that the air raids on the camps were getting fiercer, we decided that it would be best if all those concerned with the wedding left Beirut...