Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little anxious back there most of the game, expecting the big one," said Bryan. "We knew they were a strong team offensively, but I didn't really have a hard save all day, and I didn't dive once. Plus the fullbacks must have blocked a million shots...
...beguiled by the style in which the police maintain themselves: an elegant chateau, sleek automobiles, well-cut clothes, good food and drink, compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
...through the assemblage of Reed's sound set. Eventually the lights were dimmed and three silhouettes took their place beside their instruments. As the flood lights were switched on, the trio ripped into a rollicking instrumental. Normally, this would have sufficed to release a portion of the audience's anxious anticipation. Instead, the reverse was true; as the tension of the music built, so did the crowd's. The band sailed into the familiar chords of the immortal "Sweet Jane" at which point the anxiousness of the spectators was resolved in a rush of emotion. The audience reached its climax...
...Nixon, 62, never sought political fame, though her husband desperately desired it. When he fell so ignominiously, he took her down too. With him, she retreated to San Clemente, and in her despair she did not even communicate with her closest friends. For a while her daughters, always anxious about her welfare, comforted her. When they were away, she sometimes tried on dresses she had saved from happier times for what she thought would be a serene retirement. Once when she ventured out the door, a photographer's plane flew low overhead. She fled back inside...
...route home from South America in March with a case of the flu, Pat learned that her husband had scheduled a birthday celebration for her at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. It was not that he liked country music; he was anxious to stay on the good side of the South in his fight against impeachment. "I do or die," says Pat, "but I never cancel out." For much of the evening Nixon was obsessed with trying to work a yoyo up on the stage. "It hurt me to see it," said one of Pat's aides...