Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing that has been our big problem since I've been here is that we get anxious when we are in a good position, we get nervous, and we don't play well," junior Bo Bernhard said. "A baseball game is not necessarily about who is superior, but often about who presses more...
Though Clinton is anxious not to repeat the spectacle of last year's 13-week search for someone to replace Byron White, which left the road to the high bench littered with bruised rejects, White House officials took pains to deny that their focus had narrowed to Mitchell. But few other names on the Administration's short list seemed likely. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was quick to say he didn't want the job. Federal appeals court Judge Richard Arnold has the post-Whitewater disadvantage of being a Friend of Bill's from Arkansas. The most serious second contender...
...corporate America continues to shed workers, the FBI is receiving more and more calls from jittery executives anxious about the possibility of disgruntled former employees returning to offices with semiautomatics blazing. Requests for advice have increased "drastically" in the past two years, says Clinton R. Van Zandt, who studies mass murderers and other violent types for the FBI Academy's Investigative Support Unit, made famous by the film The Silence of the Lambs. Many inquiries are provoked by worries about specific employees, typically a depressed, explosively angry individual who is drinking heavily, ostentatiously collecting guns, or threatening corporate officials...
...does it? And what, exactly, does "getting it right" mean? Do Winona et al. really dance to the anxious, the "bemusedly nostalgic," the "clickety-click" rhythms of my generation...
...Anyone in their right mind would take on game instead of two to go to the Final Four," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "[But] everyone was getting anxious to get out there, and sometimes you get a little nervous energy built...