An actual triumph was a welcome relief, too, if you felt stampeded by off-court news, mostly courtesy of the N.B.A.'s player-shuffling season.
We haven't had a stampede, but I feel our market is quite stable".
As another obstetrician remarked: Some of the care providers … are interested in a high-volume practice rather than a high-quality practice, so that people who attend prenatal care … sometimes just feel like cattle in a stampede you know.
How could I read about the weight of elephant poop and not feel the ground shaking under a stampede of massive beasts or giggle at a pile of poop twice my size?
Not knowing any of this at the time, I bounced along in the tractor across a muddy field to the herd of elephants, and felt nothing more than giddy excitement when they stampeded in my direction.
Opening day: I waited two innings to get a tasteless, undercooked hot dog but felt lucky compared to those who waited longer and almost stampeded when they ran out.
"You can almost feel the ardor behind the solemn faces: lucky stampedes of power mourners, about two thousand of them, wearing out the red-carpeted aisles of the Kennedy Center".
How would the men (and it's mostly men) involved in the unseemly stampede to make money in China feel if it was happening to their wives, their girlfriends?
Stampede only results if the fear they feel is overwhelming and they need to get away from it as fast as possible.
There are many reasons the economy continues to stampede, not least that low unemployment and rising wages are making most people feel confident and willing to spend.
The stampede has prompted unflattering comparisons with India, where stampedes are relatively common, another rapidly developing country and rival that many Chinese feel superior to.
