Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death bulletin, with assurances that, "to save the life of Klement Gottwald, all was done that could be done by human power," and that "Comrade Gottwald fought for his life almost until the last moment while fully conscious," and with a warning: "There must be no weakness or panic in our ranks. Let us rally even closer around the Central Committee...
...waves chattered with admonitions to "keep calm" and assurances that there would be no "disarray or panic." Pravda and its lesser imitators were black with warnings against "enemies within and enemies without." Freshly made posters saying "Vigilance-Our Weapon-" were plastered on billboards all over Moscow and, presumably, in other Soviet cities...
...herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among Communist officials. Cars came & went in a steady stream at the home of Rumanian Commissar Gheor-ghiu-Dej, and police guards were expanded at Red Ministers' homes. In some Rumanian villages, small-fry Communist's carried clubs or staves for protection, because they were not sure...
...this difficult time for our party and country," said Moscow Radio, "the most important task of the party and the government [is] to ensure the uninterrupted and correct leadership of the whole life of the country . . and the prevention of any kind of disarray and panic...
...thoroughness with which "disarray and panic" were guarded against showed preparation. There seemed little doubt that: 1) Stalin himself had picked Malenkov, his longtime protégé, for the top job; 2) the general plan, if not the details, of succession had been worked out long ago, with Stalin's approval. Significantly, however, in the first days no one claimed publicly that Stalin had planned it that...