Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French along the centre front were surprised by a violent German attack on May 27 that in three days rolled down from the Aisne to the Marne and within striking distance of Paris. France was in a panic. General Petain called for U. S. aid. General Pershing rushed the 2nd and 3rd Divisions forward to meet the German onslaught. The 3rd Division met the enemy in Chateau-Thierry (May 31), blocked his advance at the bottom of the bulge southward. The 2nd Division cleared Belleau Wood (June 25). This defensive engagement cost the A. E. F. 9,500 casualties. More...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...
...earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy, since the men are human and lustful, statesmen argue that there is no surplus land available for the 13,000,000 weird newcomers. Commerce and communica- tions collapse, councils are called, panic reigns. Throughout the nations the cry goes up: "Death to the resurrected!" Unwanted, feared, hated, the heroes learn that their wives have found living men to comfort them, their children do not remember them. The dead are finally prevailed upon to go back to their holes...
...Party doctrines in a letter to the press. For example Sir Oswald has said: "The Government runs to and fro like a chicken in front of a motorcar, cackling economy slogans to their opponents. The way to meet this nation's difficulties is not by negatives of panic but by positives of action...
Nineteen seven was a panic year, no time to push reforms. Woodrow Wilson was warned that other more vital projects would suffer if he persisted in this one. At a trustee meeting in October of that year every member but one voted to drop the plan. Though President Wilson fought, appealed to alumni, broke with Professor Hibben, the Quadrangle Plan was accorded no further consideration...