Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Madrid two infantry regiments, artillery and bombing planes started for Seville. General Sanjurjo sent twelve soldiers with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier...
...give every American a job. His banking reforms did not make every bank solvent. His farm measures did not pay off the debt on every farm. But [his] tactics saved the day. We have prevented disorders, riots, social upheavals. We have cared for the needy, we have averted panic and catastrophe. . . . The United States is tranquil, solvent and confident...
...Delegations & passengers aboard the Empress of Britain did not panic when a fire broke out while Chief Delegate Stanley Baldwin was appealing for contributions to the Seamen's Orphanage Fund. ''That ends the program," said Mr. Baldwin serenely when the flames leaped, to be quickly quenched by extinguishers...
...this grave hour the Republican Party offers this great leader with pride and confidence. . . . His first act prevented a financial panic. He cushioned the effects of the debacle in Wall Street...
...Ruth Eldred Fairbank of Johns Hopkins studied 100 would-be suicides, and the stupendous medical literature on the subject. A feeling of failure or frustration motivated most of these cases. Impulsive panic sends many toward death. Warning signals are: "I am an empty shell," "I am guilty," "I am afraid of going crazy," "There is no hope for me," "It's no use going on." Stubborn personalities, who lack plasticity in their makeup, are susceptible to suicidal ideas. Suicide is apt to reduce the resistance to suicide among survivors or descendants...