As my mind raced, panic set in.
Business types will forever remember the heart-racing panic of fucking something up, and having the number next to their email envelope grow with smooth rapidity.
Horse racing: Panic Stable's Rose Brier made a record-setting return to Laurel Park on Saturday, leading from start to finish and holding off a late bid from Golden Sabre for a 1¼-length win in the $75,000 Henry S. Clark Stakes.
Many of us have vivid memories of reading that headline, our minds racing, panicking, thinking about the health and well-being of our friends, our family, and ourselves.
Racing, panicked thoughts: Take deep breaths.
Not only that, but keeping calm will improve your delivery, which can make or break an insult: since the hallmark of good delivery is timing, allowing your mind (and mouth) to race in panic can cripple the best diss.
The music grew louder and more frenzied — it seemed the musicians were intentionally fueling the chaos — and my heart raced in panic as I scanned the scene for Dylan, hoping he was nowhere nearby and wondering what, if anything, I could do to protect him.
Hector Campos, Sr., one of the most reliably high-performing salespersons at Southfield Chrysler, at least until recently, has often lain sleepless in his king-size bed in the gleaming-white, aluminum-sided Colonial at 23 Quail Circle, Whispering Woods Estates of Southfield, his thoughts racing like panicked ants, his head ringing with the crazed demand for money, always more money.
It was a classic tactic, the only one available to Westra: go flat out in the hope that the race leader might panic and push too hard.
A video by Ximena Cuevas, taken from the point of view of someone racing in a panic down endless institutional corridors, looks like a cross between "E.R".
