Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, every new U.S. move to aid Austria and check Russian encroachments provoked shivers of Austrian fear that Russia might take offense. Thus reports that Gruber planned to negotiate an Austro-Italian customs union, as a first step toward further entangling alliances with the West, caused a political panic which subsided only slightly when Gruber publicly repudiated extreme Westward orientation and came out for a middle course...
...November the Big Four Foreign Ministers will hold the first high-level discussion of policy on Germany since the ill-fated Potsdam conference. By then the democracies may have learned that their cause is by no means lost in Europe, that panic fear of Russia is unjustified; and the Russians may have learned that expansionist maneuvering is not the path to their cherished goal of "security...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
...theme -not necessarily the same as plot, 2) title, 3) cast and 4) a relatively unimportant item, treatment (script, direction, acting, etc.). By testing the first three elements on a cross-section audience, A.R.I, can predict, before a foot of film is exposed, whether the finished picture will panic them or put them to sleep...
...price controls was violent. Headlines told of prices of meat, milk, butter and bread shooting up. Like fat in a fire, accounts of sky-high rent boosts sputtered noisily in the news. In the first day or two it seemed to many that the nation had caught panic at the notion of being on its economic own, and free of Government price controls...