Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length it became obvious, even in Germany, that after the Experts' plan provisions, there would be no money left over to indemnify mark bond holders. Accordingly a terrific smash in these securities followed on the Berlin Boerse, in which some prominent firms were hard hit. The panic was quickly communicated to other continental centers, to London and then to New York. Now there are many mark bonds ready for sale, but buyers are scarce. The aircastle has vanished, apparently forever...
While thousands of bathers disported themselves gaily on the sands and waters of Rockaway Beach, L. I., a foolhardy pilot flew low over their heads, performed hazardous stunts, created panic. Men cursed and shook angry fists; women shrieked; children ran howling .to their nurses. People in bathing knew not whether to seek safety on shore or under water. No wonder that strong protests were made by William T. Collins, Acting Mayor of New York, and that the Commandant of the Naval Reserve made a thorough investigation. But it was not the Naval Air Reserve that was responsible for the foolhardy...
Thereupon, the soldiers unslung their rifles and fired indiscriminately. Indescribable panic followed, many people were found to have been seriously wounded, one was dead. The newspapers were thus forced to suspend publication...
...with him, does not stir personal animosity. He never ridicules, never denounces, never even flares up. He seems as incapable of deep hate as of deep love and is in turn neither loved nor hated as Trotzky is.... He never loses his head nor gets in a fit of panic, never fools himself by magnifying irritating details into devastating evils, nor by dismissing serious difficulties as trifles, like so many of his colleagues. Passion has no place in his thinking. Orthodox and insurgent will listen to him with respect and attention because he always has something of value to impart...
...About this man there is something elemental. . . . He has moral fibre. . . . With him there is no compromise. . . Frugality is a part of his being. . . To him, life is work. . . In the largest sense of the word he is a patient man. . . No one can throw him into a panic, for he sees life steadily and sees it whole. . . Has he a sense of humor? Emphatically...