Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negligence which had created conditions for panic in the civil population...
...song in the West Indies has a refrain: "Mama don't want no peas, no rice, no coconut oil." Mama wants them now. If food from the mainland is not run past submarine packs in the blue-green Caribbean Sea, panic, riots and revolt are imminent. Last week in Jamaica, worried, corseted Colonial Governor Sir Arthur Richards invoked the wartime use of flogging to curb: 1) sporadic outbreaks of violence by roving bands of hungry, unemployed natives; 2) a "wild or acute form of panic...
...exported from Germany. They had careful instructions for their work. Their list of targets included aluminum plants, railroads, bridges, terminals, canals, power plants, reservoirs, even department stores. Their objectives were to damage U.S. industrial production-especially the light-metal plants which make airplane materials-and to spread death and panic...
Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
...case. The price mechanism worked like magic; the goal was reached almost overnight. Then the British found powdered milk could be shipped in one-quarter the space, said they could take only 7,000,000 cases, left AMA holding the bag and afraid of creating a minor panic by getting out of the market...