Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make astounding progress.' What I'd really like to be able to do is say to myself, today I'll practice twice as hard for four or five hours, and tomorrow I won't practice at all. But if I miss one day, I panic. I feel incredibly guilty. There's this fear of guilt in me which goes so deep I can't even approach to explain it. And there's this lack of faith in my ability, this lack of confidence in myself, as well. There are many factors that lead me to practice this...
...moment of panic when cuts rose and profits fell, Steve--not being very experienced in business-decided to cut our unusually high wages...
...Kippur War, Israel saw an unexpectedly high number of its soldiers fighting personal breakdown, from conversion symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt...
...increased expectations, both of themselves in terms of the ability to achieve intimacy and also of the relationship as being able to solve all their problems is one of the main reasons why you have people almost as soon as they get involved in something backing out in absolute panic--this feeling of, my goodness, I almost had a relationship with somebody, what was I getting myself into? And that of course is the pattern that everybody recognizes, the fear, the lashing out, the saying, you were too dependent on me, you were making too many demands...
...throwaway") publication seriously. [Government and Community Affairs Assistant Robert] Turvene's page on grant news and opportunities will be a help, as may my determination to include stories of "gut" interests to the reader. These stories will include pieces such as these: the probable/possible effects of inflation and near-panic on TIAA and CREF‡ [Dean K.] Whitla's examination of the Houses plus his views on evaluations of faculty by students at Minnesota, in our Business School and (possibly) elsewhere at Harvard; disbursements from your opportunity fund, etc. Also, there is value in stories that in themselves are narrowly...