Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sprints when we all were nervous about being number one and having every other crew out to beat us, Liz and J.T. [Captain Juliet Thompson] said, 'Why don't you two walk around together and scare people, let them know that this is what they'll have to row against?'" Betsy says. "The intimidation works, and it's cool...
...news anchor says she is a little nervous about addressing the Class of 1989. "Following Mother Theresa is a little terrifying," Pauley says...
...race was just incredible," Jones said. "It was exciting to watch. We were a little nervous [when she was] coming into the last 200 meters. But she got an opening and blew by the rest of the girls and left them standing still...
Some dairy officials are worried about tampering with milk at a time when the public is already nervous about food safety. "You're monkeying around with a product that has a natural image," warns Adri Boudewyn, spokesman for the California Milk Advisory Board. The dairy industry is concerned that critics of BST will try to turn public opinion against the hormone. Anti-BST television and radio commercials have already been produced but have not yet aired. One 30-second TV spot, created by Jeremy Rifkin, the flamboyant Washington-based opponent of most biotechnology, features a glass of milk with...
...impossible to tell, from page to page, just how this improbable hero will perform his role, not only for the nervous intelligence officers monitoring his every move but for the readers as well. With scarcely an intimation of sex, no violence and not a side arm visible, Le Carre has again managed to construct a plot of commanding suspense. Never before has he so successfully merged his narrative and contemplative gifts. The Russia House is both afire and thought provoking, a thriller that demands a second reading as a treatise on our times...