Word: panic
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...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...
...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...
...journalists were on the scene for many of these red-letter days. Contributor Hugh Sidey, who was riding 50 yards behind President Kennedy that fateful Friday in Dallas, heard three sharp noises, saw the panic on the grassy knoll and later stared into the limousine with the crushed red roses on the front seat. Executive editor Chris Porterfield was backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles made their first appearance on Feb. 9, 1964, and recalls the "piercing din of screaming. That noise level was something new in pop performances--beyond Frank Sinatra's, even beyond Elvis'." Retired...
...clash of civilizations could. As the U.S. deploys its full military might against Iraq in the face of almost unanimous hostility from the Muslim world, Zaidi's book stands as a timely reminder of how, in the hands of a few men, revenge can throw a nation into panic...