Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting at Kragujevac . . . that has sown panic throughout our youth. ... To reach the prescribed number of hostages - 2,300, which was afterwards doubled - they made the children with their books in their hands leave four classrooms of a secondary school, cover their faces before the bullets. They were all machine-gunned. After that massacre, the number of children wandering along the main roads and through the forests like wild beasts increased...
Wild reports in the headlines of the nation's presses about the air raids on Japanese cities creating panic among the Mikado's citizens are unfounded, according to Edwin O. Reischauer, Instructor in the Far Eastern Languages, of the Yenching Institute, who was born in Tokio, and has spent most of his life in the Far East...
...make U.S. women wear old clothes, Marcus wanted fashion authorities to tell them that 1942 models would be no more fashionable than 1941's. And in order to prevent a rush of panic hoarding-the victory-suit flurry had sent men's clothing sales up 300% in some cities-Marcus wanted all U.S. fashion editors and radio commentators to reassure women that stores would carry reasonable supplies of attractive clothes...
Determined to avoid retail ceilings because of enforcement problems, Henderson had to proclaim the first one when Pearl Harbor started a buyer's panic for flashlights. Since then curtailment of civilian goods has forced more & more ceilings: on autos, tires, refrigerators, radios, 44 household electrical appliances banned by the War Production Board last week...
...Remember that attackers never panic. Anxiety, if it is successfully canalized into an aggressive effort to help win the war, will never become fear...