Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...walking stick and went for her favorite walk across the rolling Sussex Downs to the River Ouse. What Virginia Woolf did, what passed in her stream of consciousness beside the water no one else knew. But when her husband, following her footprints across the fields, rushed up in panic, only her stick was lying on the bank. While searchers dragged the Ouse, but found no body (the river is tidal at that point), Leonard Woolf told the press: "Mrs. Woolf is presumed to be dead." He did not tell what was in her last note...
...Lieut. Hans Rose commander, putting right into Newport, R. I. in October of the same year, dropping anchor smack alongside the U. S. submarine D-2 long enough for Lieut. Rose to go ashore and mail a letter to the German Ambassador in Washington; echoed the panic of May 1918, when two of the newest German submarines appeared off the U. S. coast and in a month sank 13 ships of American registry...
...expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway, to justify his thesis that labor can expect nothing but a raw deal from defense. The possibility was enough to start a near-panic among coal users, whose average supply last week was enough to last only 34 days (23 days for railroads). They soon found it impossible to get April delivery (on high-grade industrial types), bought all they could get for May and June delivery...
Adam Had Four Sons (Columbia). As the stock market is crashing during the 1907 panic, Broker Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) casually tells his secretary: "There's nothing wrong with me that my family won't cure." Forthwith he bustles off to his wife (Fay Wray) and four sons, comfortably settled in an ample Connecticut establishment enlivened by an attractive young governess (Ingrid Bergman). As the Stoddard family bounces along in their touring car or gobbles a big Thanksgiving dinner, they give a pretty picture of opulent early 20th-century existence...