Suddenly, Mr. Yousef grew panicky.
I get very panicky and suddenly want everybody out, immediately.
Time and time again, on issues ranging from marriage equality to federal hate-crimes laws to employment nondiscrimination protections, the panicky opponents of equality have predicted disaster -- and are suddenly silent when that disaster fails to materialize.
The reasons why this most devastating strain of Ebola suddenly sprang up in west Africa remain uncertain, but the under-resourced, often panicky and chronically unco-ordinated reaction to its arrival there has been only too painfully obvious.
Night was falling, the cicada buzz was rising, and I began to get that panicky feeling that the city-coddled might experience upon finding themselves suddenly alone on the roadside in a remote village in the lower Himalayas of West Bengal with no idea where to go.
The memory of the government suddenly jacking up interest rates by five percentage points on a "Black Wednesday" in September in a panicky effort to stay in the ERM, after having refused throughout the summer to raise them at all to protect sterling, has been burned into the public consciousness.
I hadn't suddenly forgotten that on a humid Sunday five months before, Tim had dumped me over the phone, cold-voiced and panicky, just three weeks after first admitting to loving me.
Forty panicky minutes passed.
