Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked to a beggar who said: "I take a supreme delight in watching the panic...
...What panic?" asked van Paassen...
...second time in as many months, the panic was on. Men & women crowded into the stores, bent on buying whatever they could while the buying was still relatively good. They bought liquor, they bought radios, they bought jewelry. On all these things (and many more) the drastic new taxes for defense went into effect this week...
Liquor stores, fur shops, jewelers helped the panic along by advertising the increase in taxes. Their warnings ranged from the bald admonition, "Buy now, before prices go up!" to such come-ons as Jaekel's (furs): "Buy in haste, rejoice at leisure...
...misuse of radio contributes mightily to driving the public toward fascism. Two of the most terrifying phrases in all human language, he thinks, are Hitler's avowed objectives, for which radio is a chief tool: "psychological decomposition of the masses" and "mental confusion, contradiction of feeling, indecision, panic [among Nazi enemies...