Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down on the stone (very cold) floor and wrapped ourselves...
...shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough a man of his time to get bloody excitement out of his first kills: when, with four hours' daylight left, his companions begin to slaughter merely for sport, he "followed fascinated." It was easy enough to see what had been...
Crisis. With the third day came something like panic. Suddenly the newspapers, even their home-town papers, were black with tall headlines, homemade advertisements, home-grown editorials, all shrieking "We Want Willkie!" The delegates couldn't understand it. The big bear-man's face, life, family swiftly became oppressively familiar. Most of the delegates wanted to be let alone, to go about their ancient business in the ancient way. But rabid strangers, unlike any political heelers they had ever seen, surrounded them on the street, gripped their lapels, argued bitterly, demanded (not begged) their vote for this...
When World War II began, many Americans were 1917-wise, outsmarted themselves by buying up staple groceries in which they expected a famine. A squirrel's panic (TIME, Sept. 23) forced price rises and even trade shortages in flour, canned goods, lard, and especially sugar, which rose from 4.40? to 5.75? a pound in one week. But by last week few housewives were laying by sugar any more. And speculators wondered whether sugar is still a good short sale. The beet price had fallen to a new all-time low, just .04? below the 3.426? a pound bottom...
Having endorsed Goodyear's notes in the 1920 panic, Seiberling, with personal debts of $6,665,000, was ousted from control of his company by Dillon, Read & Co. He quickly formed a new firm, Seiberling Rubber Co., and a holding company, Prudential Securities, Inc., into which he put all of his personal assets - including 128,000 shares of Goodyear common stock...