Word: panics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discomfort or defeat, was only ten weeks old. Some Texans drove across the Mexican boundary, registered their cars there, paid about $180 in duties, got Mexican tires and gas. Californians feared rationing would mean a traffic holocaust, especially in spread-out Los Angeles; they freely used words like panic, riot to describe their fears of what rationing might bring...
...Rewards. West of El Alamein we came to an airfield full of dozens of dispersed Me-109Fs in almost perfect condition. The Luftwaffe had fled in near panic, but its leavings were evidence that Germany is still a long way from exhaustion...
...this reason Borden & Strong took a number of quarantine and sanitary measures which, they admit, are of doubtful medical value but which were helpful in allaying panic and salvaging the camp's morale. Early diagnosis of the disease is difficult since the first symptoms are variable and confusing until the appearance of a characteristic rash, delirium, painful stiffness of neck muscles, partial deafness and blindness...
...Personnel are cautioned not to become panic-stricken by the great expanses of corridor (of which the Pentagon has 8 miles). Rumors concerning lost safaris in the Pentagon are hereby discounted, inasmuch as all but one of these safaris have been located and rescued. . . . Trained search parties will be on duty, and all corridor intersections will be patrolled at least once every two days...
...Panic in Vichy. Fright seemed plainest of all among the Vichy cabal of royalists, fascists and opportunists. They had placed their bets on Adolf Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders...