Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nazis swept across Vienna, I felt like a pit opened before me, and I stood on its edge. I was so afraid—of the panic, the beatings, the concentration camps, but knew that I couldn’t give up hope for democracy and a better future,’ she said...
...were making our own mistakes—it was really our fault,” Ogbechie said. “But we didn’t panic, we stayed calm, and decided we need to the play to the speed we always play...
Early in Scott Turow's new novel, Reversible Errors (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 434 pages), defense attorney Arthur Raven realizes his death-row client is almost certainly innocent. Raven, a low-profile corporate lawyer who has been drafted into the case by the federal appellate court, is close to panic. "If something goes wrong here I will feel like somebody sucked the light out of the universe...
...hardly been on the job two months when President Bush sent a ripple of panic through Northeast Asia by questioning existing agreements with North Korea. "There's not very much transparency," Bush said in March, 2001. "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements...
...people with panic attacks, phobias, migraines, people who tested poorly but were otherwise bright, people who couldn’t speak in public, people with writer’s block,” Powell said...