Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to forestall panic effects of an Orson Welles-Martian nature, the Rose recordings are carefully introduced and Japanese tamperings with the facts of the news are spotted for listeners by KYA's news staff...
...panic of fear and repression that followed the attempted assassination, Adolf Hitler turned, as though by blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian...
...else in the U.S., is having a spanking fine boom. Demands and prices for homes are at record levels; mortgage loans are being made on appraisals far in excess of the long-term property value. Yet only a minority of observers see a repetition of the record real-estate panic of the early '305. This time the boom seemed on much firmer ground...
...Since the last panic, second mortgages have virtually disappeared, as poor risks...
...spite of these items of superiority, the German retreat had not turned to panic. But if Alexander's plans worked right there would be wholesale disruption before the campaign was over. Shorn of his supply system, menaced by the forces on the beachhead, pushed by troops who had finally broken a humiliating stalemate, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had trouble on his hands...