Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proper defensive strategy, about whether it should be continental or hemispherical or international in its planning, about how much it should concede diplomatically before it stands firm, and so on. But Defense for What reveals an attitude as intolerant as any that is about in these days of panic, the attitude that all who deviate from its program of opposing military expansion and a general inflation of preparedness industries, are enemies of democracy, or dupes of the enemies of democracy...
...them to dominate the sentiment of the University, and to throw its influence to the support of the war-mongers of this country. While the students of Harvard and of other colleges have been behaving admirably, the professors, all too many of them, have quite gone off their heads. Panic began in Cambridge before it siezed the rest of the nation, and all through the summer distinguished doctors of philosophy, law, and letters played the role of emotional whirling dervishes...
...cover his invasion. One thing was certain: just as Hitler used parachutists to confuse the enemy's rear in the Lowlands, and tanks to confuse their rear in France, he was using mass air raids to do the same thing in Britain. When the rear is in panic, Adolf Hitler strikes at the front...
...year's greatest irony was that Britons expected bombs in the year's first days but got them only in the last. Although war caught Britain unprepared, there was no panic. Munich, the most exhausting psychological experience a nation ever endured, had dulled the British capacity to react. The mood of Britain in the first week of September 1939 was utter depression. Win or lose, for better or for worse, the Britain they had known was ended. Instinctively all knew...
...show snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...