Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address you in a state of considerable panic and alarm," wrote Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker to the Governor of Connecticut. "I write in sheer terror," he concluded. In between was a communication having to do with invasion-not by a foreign enemy, but by New Yorkers. Mr. Ross understood that a park might be laid out near his estate outside Stamford, and what he feared was picnickers from Harlem and The Bronx. He was fearfully against it. PM called Mr. Ross undemocratic. The President of the Borough of The Bronx called him "a grandee," a "socalled editor...
...week's end most West Coast citizens had no thought of panic. What was there to be panicky about? They were in fine fettle. They tingled. The battle off Midway Island, with its victory for the U.S. Fleet, was great news-but it was news tinged with a certain disappointment. It meant, they thought, that their great...
...entertainers ever assembled on this side of the Charles," Jinx Falkenburg and Beatrice Kay will speak tonight to a crowd of approximately 1000 at the annual Freshman affair. Well aware of last year's abduction of Sally Rand, which came close to throwing the Class of '44 into a panic, the Committee asserted that all precautions have been taken to prevent a repetition, and expressed confidence that all would-be abductors will meet "sudden death...
...outstanding Congress party member who favored accepting Britain's offer is slender, intellectual Chakravarti Rajago-palachariar ("C.R." for short), Congress leader in Madras. Last week, as Madras calmed down after its first panic before the Japanese terror, C.R.'s section of Congress suggested that Congress leaders sit down to discuss wartime and governmental problems with the leaders of the Moslem League. Said the declaration: "It is impossible for the people to think in terms of neutrality or passivity during invasion by an enemy power...
...Russian revolution was an organic part of World War I-the first serious lesion in the civilized social body. The second was Naziism. Only slowly did men realize that World War II was what Europe's writers had been prophesying about. And then they realized it with panic rather than understanding. Instead of clearing up, the war's terrible innovations thickened "the blind haze" that "folded in the passes of the world." The first task Author de Sales sets himself is to dispel that haze...