Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Panic. While the infantrymen in the line drew back slowly before the Chinese assault, the evacuation at the dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile...
...neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else knew how, so Gaines himself had to drive 40 miles to the nearest hospital...
...largest church, said: "In my 31 years as a pastor, today's congregation was by far the most sober and serious that I have ever seen." The gloom, the doubts, the confusion, the feeling of helplessness to reverse the disaster in Korea could be misinterpreted; there was no panic, and though there was a desperate scurrying for any possible hopeful solution, there was little talk of appeasement. The way ahead would be hard, and everybody knew it. It had to be traveled, and the nation knew that...
Dull explosions rocked the city as Allied commanders blew up ammunition and supply dumps. There was no panic or looting, but some underground terrorists were already active. They distributed leaflets urging the underground to sabotage the Allies in every possible...
This time they were wrong-dead wrong. They thought that by turning out all the lights they would create panic, chaos, widespread hysteria. Instead they played right into the hands of the people. Mild-mannered, respectable citizens were able to let themselves go for the first time since V-J day, to go out and do the things they always wanted to do. The little man was able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution...