Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...
...answer to this is that bases in Spain would be available to the U.S. anyway-since it is unlikely that Franco would side with Russia. Open U.S. reliance on Spanish bases would merely panic the French, who would regard it as advance notice that the U.S. does not expect to hold France. The French want the U.S. to make its stand on the Rhine, not at the Pyrenees...
Three mules of varying sizes were on hand to represent the Army along with three Cadet riders. The long-earned creatures were apparently not up for the game. They were momentarily confused by the number of Harvard musicians vying for the spotlight, and thrown into a panic by a costumed gentleman from a local comic publication...
Language for thirst and fear, did most to Prevent a panic. It is the crime that...
...rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, barrooms, the question was asked a million times. Britain, which has recently looked upon the U.S. as somewhat hysterical about the danger of war, was swept by a wave of alarm-but not of panic. The London Daily Mirror reported the British people as "calmly bewildered and apprehensively steady." The phrase was very British, but it described the attitude of the Western world in general. The West was braced for a blow-and it wanted desperately to know whether the blow was likely to come soon, or whether it might be postponed a year...