Word: panic
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...word barracuda, and people say, 'What?' Say the word shark, and you've got panic on the Fourth of July." So spoke the fictional mayor of Amity Island in the hit movie Jaws. Just in time for the summer blockbuster's 25th anniversary, an increase in shark attacks along the nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer...
These were not crimes of passion, of money, of gangsters. They were crimes of desperation, and they have stirred up a panic about teenagers akin to the consternation in the U.S. after the school shootings of the past few years...
When Americans discovered the news on their television sets, radio stations and informative websites across the nation, they responded with fear, panic, grief and sorrow...
They keep their promises, these Bec-Fin people. Precisely 15 minutes later, we were seated in the salmon-and-gilt main dining room. The place was packed with men in high-end suits and women in cashmere sweater sets, and I experienced a moment of panic, wishing I'd had a chance to pick up my pearls before I'd set out. Not to worry; the staff were warm and welcoming, even to the underdressed, and the fat cats were meowing and purring too much to notice...
...march proceeded without incident, although when one anti-police-brutality protester started stamping his feet furiously after police asked him to step onto the sidewalk, a feverish swarm of cameras and microphones descended, the closest thing to a panic all afternoon. Near the FU Center, a handful of marchers sat down in the street, refusing to be funneled to a park across the street from the Center. But even they were talked into moving after only a few minutes...