Word: anxious
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...Lions will be anxious to stop the bleeding against Harvard (9-12, 4-4), the last team Columbia beat. On Jan. 30, the Lions gritted out an ugly 57-55 decision by forcing Harvard to shoot 34 percent from the field and commit 19 turnovers...
Fans are getting anxious, and so are Carroll’s agent and lawyer. He humorously describes a “literary intervention” where his agent, his lawyer, and the agent’s assistant all met him for lunch after Void of Course was published. “They all laid into me, saying, you have to choose one of these two books. You’ve been making notes now for years,” he said...
...arrival in New York was marked by angry encounters with over 1,500 anti-Nazi demonstrators. In Cambridge, anxious state troopers assigned him a security detail for the course of reunion week. Nevertheless, Putzi insisted on attending several receptions at the homes of prominent alumni, including a tea party at Conant’s residence. The president later wrote in his autobiography that his response to Hanfstaengl was “cold; I did not return the greetings...
...delay in grades has significantly increased the student body’s stress level. Harvard students are notoriously neurotic about grades, and many understandably spent a good part of last Friday compulsively, if futilely, refreshing the Registrar’s grade report page. And, as most any anxious Harvard student can tell you, the “daily” update promised by the website was last honored on January 17 at 14:00:03 EST—an inordinately long...
...wanting something very badly. He drank! He did drugs! His youthful indiscretions and his youthful aimlessness made him seem like a regular, ambitionless guy. (And who needs ambition when you have a sense of entitlement?). Kerry’s ambition, meanwhile, you could see hewn into every anxious line in his long face...