Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scared." The uncharacteristically anxious words came out of Tara Lipinski less than two hours before her final program. Uncharacteristic because her legend is so well known: a toddler, transfixed by the star-spangled anthem blaring from the TV, stages her own Olympic ceremony --with an overturned Tupperware container for a podium, some ribbon and dried flowers...
...that school two T stops from Harvard. I walked into the Kendall Square Theater prepared to criticize or applaud the movie's school and our cities. The audience was a tough crowd; the seat were filled with MIT professors and students and a smattering of Harvard folk, all anxious to see how their academic worlds would appear on celluloid...
...carnival atmosphere pervaded Harvard Square yesterday afternoon, the streets teeming with people anxious to catch a glimpse of Weaver as she led her parade to the Pudding Theater...
Master's degrees, better summer jobs, advantages in housing and Core lotteries, study abroad--the most compelling reason to take Advanced Standing is that it opens up more options. Every year, peer counselors, the Freshman Dean's Office and the Registrar get phone calls from anxious seniors wondering if they still have Advanced Standing. They do, and they can enjoy the benefits (usually taking fewer classes) their senior spring. And as they kick back, sip their drinks and leaf through their completed theses, they wonder why they wasted any energy worrying about the Advanced Standing decision three years before...
...session around Christmas, she asked Carroll, "Why is this happening to me?" And if physical pain was a burden, the psychological stresses were even graver. Self-doubt can never be truly exorcised, and on the eve of what would be a remarkable reconquest of the national title, Kwan was anxious. "I wasn't skating the greatest," she said. "I think I did one clean long [program] before the competition, and I thought, 'How am I going to do it if I haven't done so many clean longs...