Word: anxious
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...city, interrogate a suspected drug dealer. Robbery and homicide numbers in New Orleans are nearing pre-Katrina levels, despite the drop-off in population. As drug dealers and gangs return to town, fierce turf battles have convulsed low-income neighborhoods, adding to the fear and uncertainty of already anxious returnees...
...completely cured. In conversation Franzen is still a little anxious and nerdy, and he throws in monster 30-second pauses while he agonizes--literally, he looks as if he's in agony--over precisely what word to say. He still wears horn-rims. He asks several times if he's being interesting. He can't resist throwing out weird little factoids that have adhered to his sticky, hyper-retentive mind (according to Franzen, 43% of Subaru owners are Republicans; every person in the continental U.S. lives within one mile of an owl; scrub jays kill an estimated 100 million songbirds...
...Wuterich says he is anxious to have the investigations finished and be able to face any accusations openly. "This is just another thing the public will judge me by," he says of the latest reports. "I have no idea what these reports are talking about." He says he believes he acted appropriately that day, and has filed a lawsuit for defamation against Congressman John Murtha, who claimed last May that Marines had "killed in cold blood" in Haditha. No Marines who were in Haditha have yet been charged with a crime, and no Marine has been detained...
Mere hours after the U.N.-brokered cease-fire went into effect, the coastal road from Beirut through Sidon to Tyre was jam-packed with thousands of cars and tens of thousands of refugees anxious to return to their homes in the south - regardless of their condition...
...Iraq. If it's difficult for me, it's doubly so for her, knowing that I'm constantly in harm's way. Bipasha jokes that her coping mechanism is a voodoo doll bearing a remarkable likeness to my boss, which she pokes with a needle whenever she gets too anxious. (Howard: you know those stabbing pains you sometimes get? Well, that's where it comes from...