Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educators, but what previews have leaked in official statements show sober thought and sound planning. Washington is apparently ready to delay the execution while it perfects the blueprints. We may guess that the same sobriety will be shown in details of the planning. Meanwhile there is no cause for panic. The reserves may be called, but they will go in order; not on a week's notice in mid-term. The army may move in, but not tomorrow or by the first of the year. If the plans have taken long, the complete execution will take longer, and it becomes...
...into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed her I would have...
...Germans poured their resources into this bottomless pit. . . ." The Germans meanwhile were encouraged to believe that a Second Front attempt would be made in Western Europe. Then "like a bolt from the blue, Montgomery in Egypt fell on Rommel." Eisenhower landed in North Africa. The Germans turned their panic-stricken faces south, and "instantly destruction fell upon them at Stalingrad...
...Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
...Panic's Sequel. Firemen broke down the revolving door, found it blocked by bodies of the dead, six deep. They tried to pull a man out through a side window: his legs were held tight by the mass of struggling people behind him. In an hour the fire was out and firemen began untangling the piles of bodies. One hard bitten fireman went into hysterics when he picked up a body and a foot came off in his hand. They found a girl dead in a telephone booth, a bartender still standing behind...