Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Qaeda, some have suggested it was a fiendishly clever idea: hit the media through a means just scary enough to cause panic, but not deadly enough to kill off the messenger. The theory - especially popular among media members themselves, self-loathing as we are - is that the self-absorbed media would hype an attack in its own offices much more loudly than strikes anywhere else...
...would like to believe. The Taliban reaction to the attacks in the U.S. was a mixture of jubilation and fatalism, Northern Alliance officials say. "At last we have f____d the Americans" were the words Khan Jan recalled hearing. This mood was replaced briefly, in Kabul at least, by panic at the first talk of anticipated U.S. strikes. Then after four days or so, Northern Alliance intelligence officials say, the Taliban recovered its composure and returned to the task of defending the city...
...territory is unknown it's better not to pretend you know where you are going. Better to listen to advice, argue with passion, even with ourselves and our worst instincts. Our better angels need weapons too, and argument makes them sharper, and every time we fight the urge to panic and help someone else regain his balance, we may better arm ourselves for whatever these next days bring...
...lift and hydro-thrust my breasts oh-so-far out there for every Tom, Dick and sketchy first-year to ogle. Britney I am not, and the thought of making my little ladies scream “hit me baby one more time” sends me into a panic...
...Last Thursday, at the Capitol, the siren was finally working but the system was not. People streamed obediently out of the Hart Building but one exit was blocked by a guard who said he was following orders, creating a small panic. Afterwards, Lt. Dan Nichols of the Capitol Police said, "It was a mistake, simple as that." They?re not quite ready for the new dangers and have set up with the attending physician, architect, and leadership the Legislative Emergency Preparedness Task Force, which had not completed its recommendations by the time the FBI urged everyone into a state...