Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This year, in the light of continuing world uncertainty, I am asking the Congress for Ar.my and Navy increases which are based not on panic but on common sense. They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as unrealistic persons claiming superior information would demand. ..." What the President left to conjecture, as he asked the nation to pay for the greatest peacetime military force in the U. S., was what the U. S. would be called upon to do if the "vicious, ruthless, destructive" forces of the world were triumphant...
...title of the Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever...