Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never really scared, although I was nervous at the thought that my treatment could have been different if I were stopped some 40 or 50 years ago, or if I had been stopped in Roxbury. And I wondered how many Blacks, Brookline residents as well as visitors, were stopped that night...
...riot police, called the Dobermans. "When they finally cornered me, I figured my time had come," he recalls. "I was more than a bit surprised when the head man pulled up short and asked me with a smile if I had a cigarette. Never have I been so nervous about admitting I don't smoke...
...canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price of the four-star restaurant just up the street...
...rack of lamb on ratatouille. The 90- seat restaurant is sometimes booked three months in advance and boasts a four-star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. Over a Kir Royale aperitif, bemused diners can enjoy a seminar in progress. On view in the glassed-in kitchen, a dozen nervous young chefs in tall toques bump into one another as they peel, poach and broil their way through the evening. At times it may seem that the students will never turn out a sumptuous meal, but fine dishes ranging from chilled duck borscht with ginger and melon to apricot mousse...
Many people who get blood transfusions these days are understandably nervous. Transfusions have saved countless lives, but they have sometimes transmitted serious blood-borne diseases, including AIDS. While public health officials point out that careful testing has all but eradicated the AIDS virus from the blood supply, they have not been able to claim that transfusions are perfectly safe. Reason: about 5% of patients who receive transfusions are exposed to a virus that can cause a potentially deadly liver infection called non-A, non-B hepatitis...