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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...compared to the mass, dressed in baggier clothes and decorated with baseball caps and logos. That faction walked more hurriedly and talked more loudly. When the music would start, they would sing the lyrics whiny with their eyes closed.Throughout the venue, people crowded around balconies and box seats anxious to see the most fashionable of the periphery and the show that was sure to grace the pages of the college newspapers from Waltham to Cambridge. The spectacle was lit by hue-changing lights and blinders (reminiscent of a Kiss concert) behind the bandstand. Death Cab took the stage with...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Death Throes for Indie Cuties | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...Miers herself, what did the critics know about her that made them so hostile--and what did they not know that made them so anxious? She is described as a private person who misses nothing. "A pit bull in size 6 shoes," Bush called her. Likes chocolate. Remembers birthdays. Works fiendishly hard. Engaged once but never married. Plays a mean game of tennis. Takes lots of notes. Makes coffee for the Sunday school. Gave money to Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. Launched a women's-studies lecture series at her alma mater. In the absence of a paper trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Two Knocks on Miers | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

Practice the exercise at least twice a day and whenever you feel stressed, anxious or off center. After a month, if you are comfortable with it, increase to eight breaths each time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aging Naturally | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...Good Night, and Good Luck” proceeds to treat that malady by bombarding viewers with the strongest dose of unsettling history that Clooney can fit into 93 minutes. The anxious tone intensifies as the film flashes back to 1953, where Murrow and his colleagues at CBS have just been pressured into signing loyalty oaths in order to keep their jobs...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Good Night, and Good Luck | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel $155,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions into Texas legislative races. He called it "one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history" and the prosecutor who brought the case "a partisan fanatic." That night, anxious to show he's not a recluse, he introduced Rudy Giuliani at a Friends of Israel banquet. DeLay even made an uncharacteristic round of the cable shows, hinting darkly on CNN that he would soon produce "very good evidence" that his nemesis, Travis County district attorney Ronnie Earle, had engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Outage | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

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