Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Among the most anxious skeptics are territorial dads. Actor Mandy Patinkin, who raves about the two male nannies he and his wife Kathryn Grody hired when sons Isaac, 19, and Gideon, 15, were younger, says he was initially jealous. "Then I quickly realized that I'm going to be a dad in my own way. And as the kids grow, it's amazing to see things they imitate in each of us. It's as if they had three parents...
...with utter nonsense and a heightened sensitivity in the presence of competitive fellow writers. I’m stealing this metaphor merely to elaborate upon a culture that is all too familiar to me, to my fellow thesis-patients and to the underclassmen—quarantined first-years and anxious juniors alike—who watch us groan...
Reid, says Baker, was soft-spoken when he first attended the mosque and "very anxious to learn." Another member describes him as gentle and amiable. That distinguished him from Brixton's most notorious alumnus. Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman who was detained in Minnesota last August and later charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks, worshipped in Brixton while studying in London. Moussaoui is remembered in the mosque as a committed hard-liner...
Witcher then won the third game, 9-2, but Austin, not to be outdone, held Witcher scoreless in the fourth, setting up the climactic final game. In front of a throng of anxious teammates and fans packed sardine-style outside the court, Austin ultimately prevailed, 10-9, in the afternoon’s tightest match...
...election by the South African team will become an important assessment of "free and fair." And pressure is building on Mbeki not only from Britain, the Commonwealth and the European Union, but also from SADC and other African leaders who, in keeping with the NEPAD principles, are anxious to establish their continental credibility. That will make it difficult for the South African observers to come up with a whitewash, as they did in Zimbabwe's 2000 general election...