Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year's greatest irony was that Britons expected bombs in the year's first days but got them only in the last. Although war caught Britain unprepared, there was no panic. Munich, the most exhausting psychological experience a nation ever endured, had dulled the British capacity to react. The mood of Britain in the first week of September 1939 was utter depression. Win or lose, for better or for worse, the Britain they had known was ended. Instinctively all knew...
...show snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...
...writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down on the stone (very cold) floor and wrapped ourselves...
...shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough a man of his time to get bloody excitement out of his first kills: when, with four hours' daylight left, his companions begin to slaughter merely for sport, he "followed fascinated." It was easy enough to see what had been...
When World War II began, many Americans were 1917-wise, outsmarted themselves by buying up staple groceries in which they expected a famine. A squirrel's panic (TIME, Sept. 23) forced price rises and even trade shortages in flour, canned goods, lard, and especially sugar, which rose from 4.40? to 5.75? a pound in one week. But by last week few housewives were laying by sugar any more. And speculators wondered whether sugar is still a good short sale. The beet price had fallen to a new all-time low, just .04? below the 3.426? a pound bottom...