Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flames spurted from the smoke, swept the superstructure. White steam billowed up within the pall as hoses played on the fire. Beneath the smoke, passengers crowded the windward decks. There was no shouting, no panic, even when they heard an officer call out an order to flood the magazine...
Last week the German advances in the Caucasus were enough to put the Turks in panic. Premier Saracoglu visited the Caucasian border; General Kiazim Orbay brought up seven Turkish divisions. They were probably there more for effect than for fighting, although the Turkish Government has sworn to battle any invader. The battle for the Turkish gates to the Middle East will be won or lost before an enemy trooper crosses the Turkish border. That battle is being fought in Egypt and the Caucasus...
...watched a riot area a mile and a half long in Chandni Chauk, heart of the bazaar district. Exploding tear-gas bombs sent the demonstrators into alleyways, wiping their eyes. Then banners peeked around corners again, lines re-formed and marched forward. The sound of rifle fire or sudden panic would send the demonstrators racing away. When police charged or fired into the crowds, angry roars burst with the hysterical fervor of a high-school cheering section. It sounded like: "Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb!" Soon the crowd began chanting "Inqilab Zindabad!" (Revolution Forever...
...numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them. A favorite parachute tactic was to land 100 or so men near a town or rail line, attempt to hold on until break-through units arrived overland. Often they dropped into towns, trying to create panic and the belief that the town had been surrounded...
...months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...