Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating fresh chaos as they laid waste the $100,000,000 of Japanese property in the city...
...panic that my refusal seemed to cause to my legation staff and to the officers of the ship made it quite clear to me what would have happened." said M. Barmine, explaining that he then left all his property and luggage in Athens, fled to France. "Perhaps," he continued, "I can get a job as a laborer in a French motor car factory." Last week he was temporarily saved from this necessity by an offer from the New York Times and North American Newspaper Alliance of a chance to write about the Government he served for 19 years...
...happy. She dreamed of a Prince who would some day come and take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...
When opponents of the bill halfheartedly asserted that it was impossible to remove three or four million people from a large city without causing a panic, a Hoare supporter croaked: "It is easier to do it before they are stretcher cases than afterward." Without a single dissenting voice the bill was passed...
...Cooke, who made his name and fortune financing the Union in the Civil War, went bankrupt during the Panic of 1873, and from the ashes of his Philadelphia banking house arose the firm of Chas...