Word: fright
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...inevitable result of their physical union, this is not true, either. The facts were recorded in century-old medical records, but were generally ignored until Georgetown University's Dr. Worth B. Daniels browsed around a bookstore, came across a long-neglected autopsy report: Eng died of fright...
...physicians who examined the bodies of the twins wrote: "In my opinion, Chang died of a cerebral clot. Eng probably died of fright as the distended bladder seemed to point to a profound emotional disturbance...
Even the umpires caught stage fright. Jocko Conlan called the Giants' Willie Mays both "safe" and "out" on the same play (he meant "out"), later pleaded amnesia: "I don't remember doing any such thing." Shrugged Mays: "I guess I was out." One thing Conlan didn't forget: to face the TV cameras when he dusted off home plate-just in case his pants split...
With the Americans ahead 2-1 Sturrock and his Aussies proceeded to hand the Yanks the fright of their lives, Weatherly winning by a scant :26 over the 24 mile course. The fifth race ended the bid from Down-Under as Weatherly defeated Gretel by a 3:40, ending the best four out of seven series...
Following the Carteri incident, even veteran Soprano Renata Tebaldi lost her voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...