Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with panic...
...right side. He is not in pain. He has had no warning. When the average man tries to tell his wife about his difficulty in moving, he finds that he cannot talk, or can only mumble slurred syllables that make no sense. At this point, he feels a panic of anxiety-which may be as big a problem to him and his doctors in the months to come as the physical damage wrought by the stroke...
...route, the radiator froze in the subzero weather. That fixed, they were only a few miles farther when a tire blew out. The kids were crying and the wives shivering with cold and panic when, at last, they arrived at Drewitz, the most heavily guarded checkpoint on the entire Autobahn to Berlin. It was no time to stop and reconsider...
...hates the Communist Party. What they and the other Group 47 writers most closely resemble is a kind of self-elected national conscience for Germany. Especially among the younger members, the appearance of anything or anyone that recalls the advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel at the sight of their new guardians sneaking a morning drink. In political terms, the resulting uproar often has an hysterical ring. Recently, during the scandal over Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9), Group 47 issued a statement declaring that...
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...