Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only after I had handed in that stack of resumes that I realized that I had taken the easy way out--and woke up panic-stricken in the middle of the night frightened by the fact that I had just applied for fifty positions that I was not even sure I wanted. The next day, I decided that it was time to take action...
Imagine my shock, then, when he called me up two weeks ago in a complete panic and told me to brace myself for extraordinary news: Sir Alec Guinness, the distinguished British actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, was not dead. Very maturely, I replied, "You wanna bet?" But he was convinced and began to recite the evidence. He had just come home from a family vacation and had seen a copy of a book written by Guinness in 1996. What's more, he read an article in Time magazine which seemed to make it very clear that...
Items up for bid in the auction include lessons in foreign languages, Chinese acupuncture, a "manic panic" hair-dying session, expensive cigars, the opportunity to be the dining hall checker for a day and one hamburger a day for the rest of the year from the Eliot House Grill, according to Goldstein...
Although tension may be mounting in your common room, take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Most first-years on campus have already thought about blocking, and many are beginning to panic...
...little is known to make confident projections, and in Britain the paper has had little impact. Beef consumption is about where it was a year ago, and although the government last week banned the transplantation of animal organs into humans, saying the risks needed to be studied, no new panic has broken...