Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thirds of the girls, many of whom had seemingly sailed through the crisis, suddenly became deeply anxious as young adults, unable to make lasting commitments and fearful of betrayal in intimate relationships...
...spearheaded its outlawing after he proclaimed martial law in 1981. At stake in the remarkable turn of events was not only Jaruzelski's political credibility but the economic direction of a nation seething with frustration over falling living standards, rampant inflation and endless food shortages. "Everyone is angry, anxious about the future, and this inevitably filters into the party and creates a crisis situation," Jaruzelski told the session. "This is why such fundamental changes have to be made." But Edward Sawicki, a Central Committee member from the official O.P.Z.Z. trade unions, expressed the fears of many in the government when...
Last summer's well-hyped Museum of Modern Art exhibit devoted to the anxious, determinedly unlikable architecture called deconstructivist was the signal design event of 1988. Not, as its enthusiasts hoped, because it galvanized the profession and fascinated the public, but because it was so anticlimactic, a bust. We have seen architecture's future, and its name is not deconstructivism...
Whenever I paused for even a moment, there was an anxious tug at my sleeve...
THIS unfair definition of intelligence seems to be partly rooted in childhood insecurities. It is difficult to forget those early years of school when the teacher passed back a corrected quiz and we students fidgeted nervously, anxious over whether we got a smiley-face sticker on the top of our paper. Then some students needed to reassure themselves that they had done well by asserting that someone else had done worse. Then the mean-spiritedness of childhood emerged, and words like "stupid" and "dummy" entered children's vocabularies. These insecurities followed us to adulthood, and our biases about intelligence remain...