Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest (five hours) air raids in Chungking's three years of experience, the dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...
...shield her lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed through the smoke, followed by the baaing mamma, left them in an open field which was eerily lighted by fires and constant explosions. Six times he returned to the blazing pens, took the lambs in his arms and coaxed the panic-stricken ewes to follow...
...handled in terms of some 20 characters who bracket among them the main classes, forces and stresses in the life of an average U.S. city. These characters are observed in three phases of civic optimism (July 4, 1907, 1917, 1929), and in three phases of panic (1907, the immediate postwar...
...been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy." > Dr. Leo Alexander of Boston: "Hess may be a constitutionally paranoid personality who may be expected under stress . . . to break down into full-fledged paranoia." > Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman, head of Psychiatric Division of Manhattan...
Baruch is immune to panic and impervious to hot-flush enthusiasm, a stranger to mercurial emotions, remorseless in decision. Henderson is a walking panic, either marrow-frozen or running a death-watch fever, and is given to so many enthusiasms at once that he looks like the last 30 seconds of a Japanese tumbling...