Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; [in] slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent actions against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair." And in Europe's dictatorships "those desperate people willingly surrendered every liberty to some man or group of men who promised economic security, moral regeneration, discipline and hope...
...attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery that a decline in U. S. Steel to $195 a share meant a panic-would not have believed that the national wealth could drop by some $62,000,000,000 in a few years, or that the nation could survive...
...more than they could believe that a great idea was involved in the first panic of the crash, could U. S. citizens believe that civilization was at stake in the war. The Southern editor who wrote "Why are we puzzled? The issues of this war are very plain. It is a war of civilization against barbarism," found himself answered by torrential letters that this was Europe's, and not civilization's, war. As in the first days of the crisis that was called the crash, citizens divided between those who believed that it would soon be over...
...planes hadn't really gone away. They doubled back, and flying along as low as 200 feet, opened up their machine guns. The women, in absolute panic, tried to run away. The ones who fell down from fear apparently escaped. But two were killed...
Dartmouth too had its moments of panic, when the half ended with the score 7-6 over Hampden-Sydney. Although the second half revealed a different story in the form of four touchdowns, the Big Green did not show conclusive proof that it'll dominate Ivy league Circles this fall.... And who ever heard of the Hampden-Sydney football team...