Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed to do was put the hose back in place, but I guess his instructions were that his job was security, so he goes off to get a nurse. Now I've missed maybe four, five, six breaths. You don't feel pain when this happens; you feel panic. I only felt a tingling in my knees. I thrashed around. I wanted air. I was like a tuna fish landed in a boat, rolling around with the hook still in my mouth...
...offs did not become routine, but eventually he lost the sense of panic when they occurred. Everything new that was part of his treatment came with its own attendant fear, which was enlarged by his imagination. He was learning one of the penalties of living solely in one's thoughts. Merely the idea of being put in the shower terrified him. "I thought, 'What if something happens to the vent in the shower?' 'What if the water gets into the trach tube?' And so on. To get you into the shower, they've got a kind of hammock to which...
...Hampshire primary vote. "We're at an event with five staffers and two relatives--our whole campaign--and each of us is walking around holding up two signs because it looks like there are twice as many of us that way. And we're in a panic, complete emotional meltdown, because we're worried we're going to lose so badly. And that was when he was the calmest and most gentle with everyone...
...this was a bomb, we should stand up to the terrorists, not give in to panic. If paranoia wins, the bombers win: they rob us of our peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
...Atlanta night, then--blast and blast wave (no video hallucination, you can feel it), heads in unison dip-duck-flinching, abruptly frozen time (an instant that seems terribly long), until at last the crowd's comprehension comes to a scurrying critical mass, and then--the surge just short of panic (young mother and father each crouching-hurrying to push a child's stroller away from the violent whatever-it-was); and, crisscrossing the screen, center to right, a young man with an inappropriate smile and turned-around baseball cap, his smile expressing, perhaps, a kind of macho embarrassment...