Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even now I draw a veil over what followed; there weren't enough people there for a proper panic; I chiefly remember Gilbert Miller's stentorian voice from the centre of the stalls demanding that so-and-so (the organ pipe, not Wood) be instantly thrown out; there were also comments reflecting upon Professor Wood and myself...
Real earthquakes jarred northern Europe last week, causing widespread panic, several deaths, scores of injuries. The epicentre was located by seismologists under the North Sea, 250 miles northeast of London. The shocks were felt in Belgium. England, France, Germany, The Netherlands. In Belgium, which was hardest hit, damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Seismological instruments in Brussels were broken by the violence of the temblor. In Ghent, one wall of the Palais de Justice was badly cracked, and a pedestrian was killed by a streetcar running wild. At Ostend, a British police band gallantly marched on, playing...
...Mint Canyon, Calif, one day last week, Mrs. Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head, the governor had taken more than he could stand-he became a cool, impersonal, relentless political strategist, controlling the Democratic Party convention in 1896, maneuvering so skillfully that his enemies were thrown into panic. And after Bryan's defeat, when the Populists were exhausted and demoralized, he was almost the only leader who kept going, launching another attack on monopoly, vested interests and Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked...
Contemplators of Land of the Free will probably rate it above Panic and The Fall of the City, But they will feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...