Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim that to ... sell our merchandise to belligerents would be to risk making entangling alliances is to surrender our manhood to insensate panic, betray the cause of liberty and brand ourselves as a nation of cowards. DELACOURT KELL...
...down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew...
Question before the house was whether democracy's schools are a match for dictatorship's. Panic-stricken by the dictatorships' single-track efficiency in grinding out Nazis, Communists who know just what is expected of them, most of Survey Graphic's experts gloomily concluded that democracy's schools are not at the moment prepared to meet the competition. Because U. S. schools (like the U. S. people) do not pretend to know all the answers, these experts proposed that what U. S. Education needs is a big blue print...
...submarine. There was a terrific shock, the lights went out, the tables in the dining room slid across the floor, women screamed and children began to cry-people were just lighting cigarets, just finishing coffee after dinner, just reaching for something to read-there was heroism, as always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded into lifeboats; there was an eleven-year-old boy who heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there...
...Although the raid is still on, there is no panic. Across the street from me, hundreds of inhabitants are watching fascinated on roof tops...