The symptoms were familiar from previous attacks: in elevators stuck between floors, or a crowded subway.

You don't want to spend that long in a crowded subway car with wall-to-wall people, not all of whom uphold ideal personal hygiene standards.

I took the crowded rush-hour subway five stops down.

We've all been there - stuck in an elevator or a crowded subway with the sweaty guy who just finished his morning workout.

It is a little like boarding a crowded subway: you enter shoulder first.

Ever try to open a paper on a crowded subway?

I know enough about him to dislike him, but on a crowded subway he'd just be another ugly face.

At 38, I was glad for a break from crowded subways and from having no control over my life from 9 to 5.

Or whirling around sharply in the middle of a crowded subway.