Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drove along a thin, wooded road and found the entryway into the ranch: laser-guarded, barbed-wired and accompanied by the anxious grrrrr of concealed attack Dobermans. A good omen--they had something in there worth hiding. A walk around the property's perimeter at first yielded only more of the same. Then we turned a corner and through the trees saw children playing a game of some sort--little houses moved around a board with sticks. The children spotted Lori and me and several of them came over...
...improving their distribution. To that end, he announced that "taxation reform is my economic task for this year" and made a goal of GNP growth of not less than 2 percent. As if that portion of the speech were for t he Russia people, and perhaps for the anxious West and the IMF, Yeltsin then seemed to turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia out of Europe, isolate Russia, for which European nations will pay very dearly...
...their outward calm, the Chinese are as anxious as the rest of the world about their future. Jiang Zemin, State President, head of the party, chief of the military committee, the "core" of the new collective leadership, was ordained by Deng eight years ago and has been running the government pretty much ever since. But history has never been kind to China in its moments of transition from one ruler to the next. And though there is confidence that these new leaders are firmly set upon the path of reform, there is equal doubt that they have the courage, stamina...
...buried anxiety to hide, to cover up, to shrink from being oneself--left over from a time when that's what life was about. That's what you stirred in me. You made me nervous to be out and gay on my own campus. You made me anxious to crawl back to the comfort of my own car and to my own room to be gay in peace. At the table you made me run to the safer ground of small talk and general conversation. I wanted you to forget it was a gay person you were dealing with...
...opening scene of the ART's latest production, a boorish captain implores his barber-orderly, Johann Christian Woyzeck, to slow down while shaving him: "Not so fast, one thing after another. You're making me quite dizzy." The orderly, a fidgety and anxious troll of a man, paces back and forth in the spotlight, etching out the confines of the circle. Surrounded by darkness, he nervously darts to his washbowl and glances out into the audience with a fearful and ominous visage. Woyzeck cannot and will not slow down...