Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students anxious to venture home for the Thanksgiving holiday expressed relief after American Airlines pilots and flight attendants ended a five-day strike yesterday afternoon...
...ones for the few available jobs. "We're seeing a lot more of our graduates from a year ago coming into our office and competing with the current graduates," says Jean Hernandez, director of the University of Washington career center. At the same time, she adds, "students are more anxious than they were four years ago. In checking resumes, I see more students looking for work outside their majors and more who are doing jobs that don't require college degrees...
...very anxious to get into the car when she knows we're going to the Cape," Young says. "She knows where her water bowl is there, and she knows the limits to the land...
Harvard went in fairly relaxed. Still, there were anxious moments. During the weeks between Eastern Sprints and the Nationals, the team had put on some weight--enough to create panic as weigh-ins approached. (Lightweight crews must have an average weight of 155 pounds and no member may weigh more 160.) The team needed to lose weight fast, and breakfasts of Special K weren't going to do the trick...
Even now, English professor Helen H. Vendlerfears unpreparedness in front of the class. "It'sa surefire occurrence, no matter how long I'vebeen teaching," she says. Vendler, rather thandreading catastrophe, says "the vigil night beforeclasses, I'm always anxious about the usualthings--coming to class without a book, notremembering a quotation...