The boy shuddered a moment and fought off his first real attack of panic.

But I also suffered from night terrors and attacks of panic at being alone.

I sternly quelled an incipient attack of panic, and stood still to think.

Fighting down a brief renewed attack of panic, Adrian concentrated again on his progress downstream.

In her first months on the bench, she'd sometimes nod off at the dinner table to stave off attacks of panic.

"You have these attacks of panic.

In the research, carefully chosen patients are given imipramine, a widely used anti-depression drug that is also useful against serious anxiety and attacks of panic.

When the door slid shut again behind them, Ahren experienced such an attack of panic that it was all he could do to keep from crying out.

"I went for a check-up but, in my heart of hearts, I recognised that it was an attack of panic more than anything else," she remembers.

Merely dropping some of his shields had been shudderingly difficult; he could not even think about working real magic again without bringing on an attack of panic.

The most immediate is this: Can Lipinski withstand the same enormous pressures that wilted the 16-year-old defending champion, Michelle Kwan, in a four-minute attack of panic on Saturday night?