Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the Diaro de Lisboa: "The present moment is not for panic but for precaution against the repercussion of events...
...Signs of panic multiplied in Helsinki...
...fourth afternoon her hour came. For a while she sat in panic, then, when she could stand the pain no longer, asked a soldier sitting near by to call for help...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
...Bitterness. There was no panic in Hamburg, said returning foreigners. "The population took everything with a bitter resignation which had a terribly depressing effect on foreigners. The suffering is so tremendous that many people have been plunged into apathy." In the shelters the people crowded together for hours, listening to the howl of bombs, the crash of gunfire. Women wept, children cried...