Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parliament had appointed three negotiators to treat with the invaders when a staff officer rushed in shouting: "The Germans are coming!" In panic, the Royal Government of Norway again took flight, to Elverum higher up in the mountains, then to Nybergsund. Nazi planes, spewing slugs and incendiary bombs, followed wherever they went, razed these villages. Once the King had to hide in the woods, fling himself into the snow, as a killer pilot dived so low it seemed he recognized royal quarry...
...spot on the continent of Europe, large or small, was safe. Not since the first decade of the 19th Century, when Bonaparte was on the prowl, had panic so seized Europe. Caught in the relentless pressure of power politics, the politicians of the smaller nations were as helpless as their people. The fate of their countries was in the hands of belligerents and near-belligerents; neutrality no longer seemed possible...
...weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...
...Princeton project (directed by Drs. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantril) had been studying radio on Rockefeller money for about a year when the Halloween panic popped practically in Nassau Hall. With a special grant of $3,000 from the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Cantril and associates went after known survivors of the Sunday nightmare with a questionnaire many times as nosy as a census blank. In addition to straightforward questions about the incident, the project's interviewers asked people about Mars, rocketships, religion, superstitions, job security, education, year and make of car, the Czech crisis...
...Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show called "How the World Will End&"-following a news broadcast, with no mention of Jack Benny. Result: a minor panic in the City of Brotherly Love, jammed switchboards, perspiring cops, an editorial rebuke from the Philadelphia Inquirer. * Princeton University Press...