Word: panic
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...Break. The trip seemed so far away that I was safe. Slowly but surely, however, my unease about travel grew from an ominous flicker on the horizon when planning the trip to a tangible approaching reality. As the date of my imminent departure grew near, doubt gave way to panic attacks. The attacks would hit me at random times during the day, usually beginning with a heavy lurch of the stomach. Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting to the ground while the plane gave its death rattle to the background...
...time to panic? Probably not. Unless and until the Middle East fulfills its worst-case scenario and expands into a full-on, pan-regional war, there's little danger to the global oil supply. OPEC, for one, has steered clear of any Saddam-style threats, and seem to realize that it still has more to lose by declaring economic war on the U.S. than it has to gain - particularly with George W. Bush busy courting Arab nations to support his war on terrorism...
Stock-market panic? Depression? That's what those Dutch financiers would have us believe. I say, Give it six months, and the whole thing will blow over--just like the foul stench of their gouda...
...knows that millions of dollars are still hidden in the house. His nasty surprise is that the house is occupied; he thought the house was still being held in escrow, which would keep it empty longer. The Altmans' nasty surprise is that the loot is hidden in the eponymous Panic Room, the house's steel-encased, supposedly impenetrable retreat of last resort...
...this time, Doe was moving away from reconciliation and toward litigation - and O'Connell could sense it. In a panic, he left three phone messages last Monday, the last one not so subtly urging Doe not to go public...