Word: panics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constabulary rounded up Moro outlaws who seized on the panic for raids on unprotected villages. But against the real juramentados there was nothing to do except keep trigger fingers limber. No one could say which Moro might suddenly run amuck, or where...
...Marines made ready to leave, scores of other foreigners followed suit. To the financial depression, long since brought on by Japanese control of the city, there was added personal panic. Morbid drinkers who stared along the "world's longest bar" at the Shanghai Club fancied they could see not only the curvature of the earth but a tragic turning of destiny...
...city's panic started a fortnight ago when three Negro boys, one aged twelve, pounced on a white boy outside Central Park, stabbed him to death. Few days later, in dark Morningside Park, another gang robbed, stripped and killed a white man. Mayor LaGuardia, himself a Harlem resident, sent 324 more cops into Harlem to quell its young criminals. Four days later, under the Mayor's very nose, a burglar looted an apartment across the hall from...
Boston is the bull's eye in a huge defense target embracing the entire New England area. Production in Germany of a Nazi version of the flying fortress is reported to be under full steam, and a token bombing of New England calculated to panic its people and production would be far from unlikely in case...
...What panic? The panic of the bourgeoisie, of course. . . . For years they knew that this would come. . . . They wanted to continue, to hang on to what they had, to their poor little, dirty, decrepit possessions, and survive . . . just sneak through for another generation. . . . The great whore is about to face judgment...