Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid near panic in Berlin, rumors festered so thick that Alarmist Johannes Steel, Foreign Editor of the New York Post, fairly dithered: "The fortnight following Jan. 13 [date of the Saar plebiscite] may be the bloodiest two weeks in the history of Germany. Riots, executions, wholesale imprisonment involving 10,000 to 15,000 men and women, with possibly civil war, will sweep that unfortunate nation from its Baltic coasts to the banks of the Rhine...
...moved to say, "Those are awful uniforms you're wearing." The Storm Troopers summoned the lone policeman of Waldmohr, a village three miles distant. He charged Stenographer Sittell with "insulting the Realmleader," clapped her into the village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best proof that she is being well treated...
...story of The Little Minister concerns the Scottish village of Thrums and the alarm which overtakes its devout residents when they learn that Mr. Dishart (John Beal), the rector at Auld Licht, has fallen in love with a gypsy. The panic in the parish is only exceeded by that of Mr. Dishart himself who, when he becomes aware of the state of his feelings, decides that the gypsy is a wanton. Actually, as the audience knows, Babbie is not a prowling vagrant at all, but the ward of Lord Rintoul, who lives in a castle...
...complete reorganization of education in the United States, with a shift in its objectives and a complete change of its center of gravity, may, as some persons believe, be highly desirable; but to bring this about by indirection and more or less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built...
With censorship around the Kremlin airtight, travelers leaving Russia reported that at Leningrad the local Gay-pay-oo, in panic at Stalin's arrival to investigate Kirov's death fortnight ago, refused to admit agents of the Moscow Gay-pay-oo who accompanied the Dictator...