Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...depression that has dogged Gazza over the years is already threatening his stay in China. Just a couple days earlier while walking down the street in Qingyuan, the town where the team is training, Gazza suffered a panic attack when the sense of dislocation overwhelmed him. It was all too much, the motorbikes laden with squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever...
...Sept. 11, a disaster brought us together, but anticipating the next one seems to be doing the reverse. All around the country, people see the same facts and run in opposite directions. You can find panic in a small Tennessee town and insouciance in midtown Manhattan, and vice versa. Some view taking precautions as a patriotic duty; others see it as complicity in a fearful campaign they want no part of. For some, the prospect of war with Iraq makes everything more frightening--why take action that might cause our enemies to multiply? For others, it seems only more necessary...
...little planning and common sense, you can be better prepared for the unexpected." But in private there were arguments about whether to raise the alert code, and there will be more about when to lower it, a debate over its value in protection weighed against its cost in panic. "If we're going to have any shot at the safety part of this, we're going to have to have people feel the need to pass on information," argues a top official who is in no hurry to drop back to code yellow. "We've got to learn about this...
...apartheid-era South Africa - another place where music, from impoverished townships like Soweto and Alexandra, spurred the people on to action - the real fight here "is really black vs. black," says a Zimbabwean M.P. "It's black people against a black leader." "The old man makes his own people panic," says Job, a taxi driver. (Names have been changed in order to protect the speakers.) "The day will come when we say 'Enough is enough.'" We thought we were liberated, but we were not," Mapfumo says, two days after the Mutare show, over a stew-and-rice dinner...
...can’t start thinking ahead when you’re down 3-0,” Moore said. “You have to stay calm, stay cool, find an opening and try to capitalize. We didn’t panic or try to do too much. We knew once we got our chance we could capitalize...