Word: panic
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...Once they went up 6-3, this panic set in," Corkery said. "It was like, 'we can't lose this game.' We had been losing possession too much and we weren't willing to lose the game because...
...being as much of a fashion slave as the next girl. Once in a blue moon, though, she suffers a rare relapse into good taste...depending on how many diet pills she's spiked her breakfast espresso with. After temporarily overdosing on Xenical this morning, Candie had a panic attack and sniffed out something rotten in the state of Trendiness...
Bush's Death Star strategy was hatched on Feb. 2, the day after he lost New Hampshire to McCain by 18 points. His top advisers met in a panic at a hotel in Greenville, S.C. Not only was Bush's air of inevitability shattered--McCain was galloping from 40 points behind in South Carolina to a dead heat--but all their presumptions about the race had proved wrong. They had spent months trying to plug the stature gap and build an image of Bush as a candidate who could unite the party--and then they were blindsided by a Republican...
...safety of set speeches and surrogates who could speak for him, he was now flying solo. At Newberry, when a black student asked why Bush wouldn't take a position on the Confederate flag controversy, some white students booed. It was an awkward moment, but Bush didn't panic. He quieted the crowd and insisted that the student had a right to ask his question (although he continued to give his nonanswer). At the same session, a young mother pressed him on the need to teach the Bible in public schools--another invitation for Bush to say the wrong thing...
...with the Bush campaign, sees the Delaware vote in a different light. "McCain will see this as another vote of encouragement," says Lopez. "And while the Bush spokespeople are playing down McCain's 25 percent and playing up Bush's win," they're trying desperately not to show any panic at McCain's insurgency...