Word: datings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonders why, exactly, he is nervous. Perhaps because he knows his date but not that well. Perhaps because he's convinced that he can't dance to save his life. Most likely, though, he's worried because of the heaviness, the weight, the very formality of the formal. At this point, though, he brushes aside his worries: "It's a chance to have fun and get away from work", he tells himself...
...must date back to that first dance in sixth grade when he first stepped onto the dance-floor shivering with nervousness. By high school he had become more comfortable with himself, but the anxiety lingered. He remembers showing up with only an hour left at his senior prom because he was nervous...
...what was he nervous about at that prom? It was the formality, he tells himself, the big deal that everyone made about it, the picture sessions, the which-couples-were-showing-up-in-what-color-limo, the need to get dressed up and, more importantly, to bring a pretty date. Again, he brushes aside these memories and perceptions. He's in college now and nobody cares about who's wearing what...
While the deans believe that the combination of providing each student group with two beds in temporary housing and of urging those groups' local-dwelling members to be responsible for first-year tabling is adequate, we feel that the change in move-in date will damage groups' early publicity efforts beyond mere inconvenience...
...information on a disaffected CIA agent he knew in Paris. There seems to be a lot of disaffection at the CIA, a sclerotic bureaucracy, as the author tells it, lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell's newspaper is tottering as well; its traditions, which date from a time when a newspaper could be the soul of a city, are far more solid than its finances. Good reporters are quitting. The publisher, a decent fellow in a shameful squeeze, is talking with secretive offshore moneymen...