Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible to live on this West Coast without feeling exasperated at one's mail from New York. New Yorkers seem peculiarly subject to a contagion of panic and they forget that west of the Hudson River lies the United States, which is still an immense and magnificent country inhabited by a vigorous race of people...
...Party was not going to disappear, no matter what wrong man it chose, what platform it shied away from. The conflicts, hesitancies, choices were not going to end abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
...west, German armored columns thrust steel fingers around one seaport after another-St. Malo, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle-reaching for Bordeaux. German and Italian bombers repeated at Bordeaux their performance of last fortnight at Tours, dumping death into the overcrowded city to panic the populace and complete France's demoralization. This stopped only when white flags were flown in a wide circle around Bordeaux...
...separate peace by France over the weekend. But the market reacted to Italy's war declaration by bouncing four lusty points off the floor (111.84), closing next day at 115.97. The fall of Paris pushed it to 122.27. While volume was only 40% of the average of Panic Weeks I and II in May, the market nevertheless closed the week at 123.36, up 12.52 points from...
...points, touched off a 100,000,000-yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during the panic, cast aside their month-old minimum price crutch, limped up a penny...