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...people who panic most easily are those who have unconscious anxieties of their own, which danger brings to the surface. Such people feel that danger is directed at them individually-that every bomb is aimed at their heads. Best way for such people to protect themselves against panic is to take part in group activities, get some duty to do in time of danger. (Actually the bombing of Britain proved that air raids sometimes make neurotics more courageous than they normally are. Apparent explanation: a common danger externalizes neurotic anxieties, draws the neurotics out of themselves and closer to other...
...North Dakota, scrapped before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...
...Patriotism is surely something more than knowing verbatim the Pledge of Allegiance. . . . It's the feeling that you get when you hear that Jap planes are about to bomb San Francisco and you feel that if you could just get a plane you'd go up and give those yellow devils a taste of their own medicine...
Most U.S. politicians and fiscal experts approached the forced-savings scheme with all the caution of a man sprinkling an incendiary bomb. Opinions before a Congressional committee late last summer...
...shopkeeper who, having lost his wife, his daughter, his shop to a Japanese bomb, laughs nervously and says: "But it is not so bad. I have my two sons. We will build the shop again...