Word: panic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd in after the Russians as they carried her into the building...
...leaped over a fence and started across lots, carrying the canvas moneybag. A bulldog-a creaky, cross 13-year-old dog named Buggs-ran out toward him, growling. Fox lost his head completely. He kicked viciously at the dog's head. Then he ran in panic...
After 120 Bombings. Within minutes of the blast, fire crackled around highly volatile chemicals. Survivors staggered out of buildings from which black smoke billowed. They could hear the moans of those trapped inside. But there was no panic, no screaming. To the workers this was an old, familiar story. In 1921, more than 80% of the northern third of the vast plant at Oppau, three miles northwest of Ludwigshafen, had gone up in one terrible roar that took 565 lives. Just five years-minus one day-before this week's explosion, a similar blast had taken 73 lives. During...
...townspeople of Ludwigshafen, half of whom rely at least indirectly on the plant for their living, also showed a noticeable lack of panic. When the blast disintegrated windows in houses as far as five miles away, the people poked their heads through the empty frames, looked up at the monster column of billowing black smoke, and yelled across to one another: "So, it is the factory again...
...fishing junks spread their lugsails against the sky. Chiu Tok moved forward, ordered Senior Pilot Cramer to surrender the controls to him. One of the passengers rose to interfere. The pirates shot him. Co-Pilot McDuff grabbed an iron flag bar and swung on Chiu Tok. In a panic, the pirates fired wildly at the two pilots. Cramer slumped dead over the controls. As screaming passengers spilled into the aisle, the plane came around in a wide circle. Out of control, it plummeted down into the South China...