Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quandary-how much to talk about the bank on the verge of its collapse -seems to apply to China this week. To tell the truth might start a panic and wreck the bank for certain. Not to do so makes you a conspirator in the eventual bilking. The best hope in such a situation probably is to tell the truth in time to reorganize the institution before disaster...
...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
...Over at the streetcar queue police fired into the air, driving commuters into a panic. Police got excited and clubbed Commies and non-Commies alike. Ambulances were almost as thick as taxicabs. Right in the middle of all this I ran into an American named Weeks who had just arrived. 'My,' said Mr. Weeks, 'Rio is an exciting place...
Thirteen days later the Vance docked at New York, a ship of sickness and tragedy. Babies were ill, their mothers panic-stricken, and with reason. Within 36 hours, four infants died at the Army's Fort Hamilton Station Hospital. In the next four days two more had died. (Still another, who had been on the Brazil, a transport which arrived the day before the Vance, died from apparently the same ailment...
Last week, at a convention of pediatricians in Skytop, Pa., Dr. Louis K. Diamond, 44-year-old assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard, and Dr. Neva M. Abelson of Philadelphia, reported on recent studies of the Rh factor, disclosed the heartening news that it was no cause for panic. Some conclusions...