Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it appeared that Joseph V. Stalin believed that the Russian Army could not possibly have been forced back two-thirds of the way to Moscow unless there were traitors among its officers. So once more he instituted political commissars to fight a "ruthless struggle against all cowards, panic-mongers and deserters." Henceforth, Russian officers would have politicians as well as Germans to contend with...
...Without panic Muscovites went about organizing air-raid shelters and A.R.P. units, but the shelters themselves were scarce and hastily thrown together at ground level, offering little real protection. For Soviet higher-ups was reserved Moscow's only safe shelter, the 100-foot-deep Kirovskaya Metro station...
RussiansToo Conspiratorial? "We must wage a ruthless fight," said Joseph Stalin in his stimulant speech last week (see p. 22). "against all disorganizers of the rear, deserters, panic-mongers, rumormongers; exterminate spies, diversionists, enemy parachutists; render rapid aid in all this to our destroyer battalions...
...talk to his people as though they lived in a careless land, bird free. "The Soviet people must . . . abandon all heedlessness; they must mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on new, wartime lines. . . . Further, there must be no room in our ranks for whimperers and cowards, for panic-mongers and deserters; our 'people must know no fear in the fight and must selflessly join our patriotic war of liberation...
...society's Patricia Anne ("Honey-chile") Wilder phoned home in a panic to make sure a borrowed $65,000 necklace was still safe on her dressing table. "Yes'm," said her maid, "and it looks 'most real. I was a killer las' night when I wore it up in Harlem...