Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
After 30 minutes of hellish panic, the Chimara rolled over, sank at once. Down with her went 200 or more, mostly women & children-and 40 Greek leftist guerrillas chained in her hold (their destination had been an exile camp in the Aegean Islands). Many who had quit the ship died in the sea. Hours later fewer than 200 survivors were accounted for. The dead and missing: more than...
...this throws Elliott into a panic: American university students must be isolated from the real world until they have at least their Ph.D., to suit him. All the usual warnings against Communist domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That...
...support him. At week's end C.I.O.'s Philip Murray hysterically proclaimed: "There is a deliberate and monstrous movement under way to cripple, if not destroy, the labor movement of this country." He called for a united labor front against the "predatory interests." His words reflected the panic of shrewder labor leaders, who had read the election returns...
...Sounds. As the panic spread, the South's cotton patriots howled for the Government to do something about cotton as loudly as they had once howled to leave it alone. To Southern Congressmen, a free market was fine as long as prices were rising and consumers were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished...