Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Number Two. Fires sprang up everywhere. Smoke turned the afternoon into night. Police, firemen, troops poured in to fight fire and panic. Just 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second created still more havoc. Fire threatened to engulf a city of 1,500,000. U.S., British, Indian troops fought flames for five days. As they rushed from one danger spot to another, the Americans sang Deep in the Heart of Texas. Sappers demolished hundreds of buildings to check the fire...
...spot broadcast and development of a real invasion by Martians of superior intelligence and formidable machines. So realistically was it presented by Orson Welles, that citizens actually called their police stations and offered to help save the country from the invading Martians. A psychological interpretation of the panic was written by Professor George W. Cantril of Princeton entitled "The Invasion From Mars," containing the original script, and may be obtained at Widener Library...
...Moreira Cesar's artillery opened up, the church bell began ringing, "summoning the faithful to battle." As his troops swept into the trap, he was wounded in the abdomen. "It is nothing," he said. Another bullet struck him. By nightfall the army was panic-stricken...
General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...
...home everyone was on pins & needles. The papers were filled with accounts of the murder by a tri-sexualist of his wife, his boy friend and himself. Eleanor Roosevelt said we must have faith. Mayor LaGuardia urged New Yorkers not to panic. Arthur Krock wrote a story based on a report from a high official who could not be quoted. When the President was finally asked just what was cooking, he said everyone must be patient...