Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terror came on the cold, wet wind with the sound of Russian guns. Panic came on the heels of the milling, stumbling horde of refugees. Berlin, at last, was a battle zone...
Bisbee. "I want to say right now that it means the end to family-type farming. . . . If General Hershey wants to see the farmer out of business, all he has to do is go ahead and draft these boys and he will see a farm panic...
...sure of getting enough goods to keep sales at their peak, the merchants brought with them the greatest troupe of buyers ever to invade Manhattan's wholesale markets. Some wholesalers dourly accused the merchants of doing a little panic buying on their own account...
Sister Elizabeth asked Maria Pia and Bernadette to open the windows. From the distant Rhine rolled the thunder of guns. Suddenly, much more loudly, came the roar of planes. Eyes widened in panic, voices shrilled: "Flugzeuge! Flugzeuge!" (Airplanes! Airplanes!). The little girls had remembered fear...
...McCarthy and Dowling were trying to help Terry. There was nothing anyone could do for Ace Bush. He had been instantly killed by a fragment. His body was virtually un marked, his face calm and serene. It was obvious that he had not known even a momentary flash of panic or pain...