Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pathetic Treasures." "One entire jetty," cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, "was packed with these refugees, sitting on their pathetic bundles or clutching them with the strength of despair. What did these simple, bewildered people seize in the moment of panic? A small Turkish carpet, a radio, a sewing machine were among the treasures. A three-year-old hugged his pet pigeon. One woman brought a battered aluminum chamberpot. Hour after hour they sat, waiting for barges, British landing craft and other odd boats now doing ferry service across the blue bay to Acre." Other thousands fled to the Arab-held...
...last week a kind of panic swept through the Democratic ranks. Suddenly Democrats everywhere began to realize that Harry Truman looked like a sure loser in November. The Southern revolt was beginning to look like a rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates...
...panic spread into the North and West. Labor leaders, anti-Wallace liberals and machine bosses broke out with anti-Truman fever. The fever, partly induced by disgruntlement over the Administration's blundering on Palestine, was especially virulent in such pivotal states as New York, Illinois and California. In these states even the best of local Democratic candidates had small hope of winning on a ticket topped by Harry Truman's name...
...steward had murmured that he had half a mind to take a drink to her cabin. At 2 a.m. he did. When she had finished it, Camb said, "I climbed on the bed beside her. She raised no objection." Later, she fainted. Camb could not revive her. In a panic, he snaked her body through the porthole into the sea. It was never found...
Says Christopher Sykes: "It can be said, without any exaggeration at all, that those two women set in motion the most formidable chain of events. They caused panic to the enemies of France in a whole province . . . they raised an army in the defense of all that makes human life honourable and endurable, and they inspired a loyalty and love which, with the debasement of the term 'Charity,' is hard to describe; we have now no fine enough word to depict such virtue...