Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station and its Hsiakwan slums along the Yangtze. There Chinese too young, too old, too poor, too sick or too ignorant to have left Nanking were slain in slews. Japanese bombs wrecked and ignited their miserable huts, blew them to bits, seared the living, cremated the dead. Instead of panic or disorder, the reaction of Nanking's wretched poor seemed to be either to cower bemused and trembling or to rush into the streets with yells, curses and fists madly shaken at Japan's war birds. So far as could be learned not a single Chinese of prominence...
Into Shanghai's foreign settlements from the war-torn countryside nearly a million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
...marks; and more recently he has sewed up banks, governments and firms in many countries of the world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could not pay, got what she wanted by swapping. If trading were even remotely free on German stock exchanges there would have been panic and chaos last week as it was realized that Schacht was out-but iron, totalitarian Nazi control kept all quiet...
...junior-college and high-school students were hastily summoned back to classes, but Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, refused to set a date for the younger children's return. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association sneered: "Panic ... is frequently reflected in the statements and actions of public officials." If the statements and actions of public officials showed that they did not know the difference between education and a circulation stunt, the press was more realistic: cartoonists, columnists and inquiring reporters had a field day with new and revised...
...days before this anecdote was published in the U. S., in the U. S. S. R. Moscovites were gasping at an editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial...