Word: panic
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...miming alarm and confusion he gets to do some terrific, ephemeral things with his eyes. Sometimes they are bright with half-formed schemes. Sometimes they are hard with a resolve that has not quite coalesced into a plan of action. Sometimes they are addled with a flickering panic he can't entirely hide. In these moments he takes us behind the conventional hero's stoic mask and allows us to see Jack as case of arrested development , a pre-sexual child pretending to be a man of decisive action and romantic elan. Mostly, though, he's forced to give...
...held immense power over the U.S. economy. In a day when there was no Federal Reserve to control the money supply or tweak interest rates, he operated at times as the nation's one-man central bank. By withdrawing his approval from a shaky deal, he could cause a panic. By pouring millions into tottering banks, he could end one. He did more than assemble capital for new ventures. He took over mismanaged companies, installed his own men and supervised operations. As he exercised his godly powers, he could not abide interference. Jean Strouse, one of his most thorough biographers...
When the plans were discovered on Bokhowa's hard drive, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the CIA's operational chief for WMD and terrorism, and his counterpart, "Leon," who heads the analytical side of that same division, went into something just shy of a panic. Leon instantly pulled together a team to make a model of the device that he could eventually test...
...this - evidence of a truly operational attack on American soil, the first since 9/11. Mubtakkars in the New York subways? As the questions rose and swirled, in the back of each person's mind ran disaster scenarios, continuous play, of panic underground in New York...
...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...