Word: fright
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...Robert Massie confesses how relieved he felt when his job (at Newsweek and later the Saturday Evening Post) legitimately took him away from home, freeing him briefly from his continuing responsibility. Suzanne admits that she once considered suicide and writes: "A person living with hemophilia can become paralyzed with fright, like a rat in a maze who has met with an electric shock at every innocent-looking exit until finally he simply turns frantically in circles, afraid to try any more doors...
...woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been...
...contact with the enemy at all. South Viet Nam's army had always performed unevenly, yet at its best it had given a good account of itself after so long and terrible a war. But now a full six South Vietnamese divisions had simply dissolved in a cascade of fright after Thieu abruptly ordered a massive retreat without giving his commanders a chance to lay the complex plans necessary to keep such a risky military maneuver from turning into a rout...
Thereafter the mood darkens. A girl wing-walker literally dies of fright. A friend crashes while testing a new plane, and Waldo is permanently grounded for buzzing the crowd that gawks at the man's death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...year she was in Collegium he made no efforts to bind the group. Her own efforts as a conductor are directed toward creating a rapport with her cast and orchestra. "I enjoy the leading." If she had to act or sing on stage, she says. "I'd get stage fright," but "when I come out to conduct and the spotlight is on me, I'm not scared...