Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nisei with yellow skin, slant eyes, and a college education: "Over there I'd be a coolie. Over here...I have enough money to own a car, I can talk to any man. Over here, by God, we believe enough in what we have to fight Japan." But panic was in his heart. Would other U.S. citizens know the difference...
This week panic buyers of sugar and flour remembered how they had done the same thing in 1939, and how foolish they felt afterward. Theater attendance picked up. Christmas buying edged back to normal. The first shock was over...
...called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill U.S. men-create anything resembling the panic created three years ago by Orson Welles's famed faking of a Martian invasion...
Wall Street took first news of the U.S.Japanese war without panic...
...join the Army, Navy, and Marine Force is useless if they do not give some time to rational consideration as to whether by so doing they will be giving the country the best of what they have to offer. Despite this warning Harvard students are already showing signs of panic; already there are vague rumors of a Harvard Regiment similar to the one formed in the last war, with two-thirds of the student body constantly drilling; already a few horrified calamity-howlers are foretelling the closing of College after finals. As President Roosevelt said, nothing breeds unconfirmed rumors like...