Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drivers known to be Solidarity members. The cabbies picked up the scientists at their homes, according to a prearranged plan, and drove them to hiding places. On the streets, friends talked to one another while looking over their shoulders for soldiers. In their homes, people once again began to panic when someone knocked on the door at night. "We are back to 1951," lamented one Pole. "It will take us 20 years to rebuild...
...official told me, "It's too dangerous not to show up." But there was not much work to be done. With the telephones dead, virtually all businesses had come to a standstill. Owners of small private concerns, like carpentry shops, watch-repair shops and greengrocers, were in a panic. When their cars ran out of gas, they would be unable to get supplies and would have to shut down...
Despite the clear absence of panic over the recent crackdown, members nevertheless viewed the future gloomily. "All of my family is over there and things are going to happen," a Somerville man who immigrated in 1963 said, adding, "I fear the soldiers are somewhere down the line going to shoot people...
With a mixture of nausea and panic at the number of calories she had just consumed, Susan drove quickly back to her office where she delivered the yogurt to her co-workers, and then went into the bathroom where she made herself throw...
...Lynn's downtown. Vast, empty Victorian brick factories, relics of the Lynn's long reign as "Shoe Capital" of the nation, were being recycled to serve a reawakening city as offices, stores, apartments and classrooms. But as he drove along Boston Street, Magrane was seized with panic. "I saw flames and said, 'Oh, my God, what's that...