Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that moment, neither Wanley nor the girl nor the audience know a moment's peace. The professor's decision to dispose of the body and his meticulous efforts to obliterate all trace of the murder make a tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another...
...very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...
Kweilin, the "Paris of China," was close to panic again. Panic had struck first seven weeks ago when the Japanese, poised in Hengyang, had seemed headed for the battered but glamorous Kwangsi city (pop. 100,000), whose holiday habits and friendly girls have made Kweilin's name blessed among U.S. airforcemen on pass...
That time the Fourteenth Air Force's big Kweilin base had been stripped and partly scorched. But the panic had died in a crackle of firecrackers when the Chinese Army and the Fourteenth's airmen had checked the enemy at Hengyang. This time the threat to Kweilin was more serious than before...
Next, De Gaulle. Reports that a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...