Word: nervous
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...play dice with the universe," McManus writes, "but serious gamblers...prefer no-limit Texas hold'em," a particularly hard-boiled poker variant. McManus gives the reader a riveting over-the-shoulder view of the hand-by-hand action as he scours his opponents' poker faces for "tells"--nervous tics that betray their true emotions--while betting his next mortgage payment on the turn of a little cardboard rectangle...
...some people welcome a new stepparent's assumption of responsibilities. For Jay Hill, 41, his mother Sunny's remarriage last summer was a relief and even an inspiration. After his father died in August 2000, Sunny, then 65, showed signs of closing down. "Suddenly, she was nervous to fly because she'd always flown with my dad," Hill recalls. But instead of retreating, Sunny began making romantic overtures to Maury, 68, her new neighbor in Kalamazoo, Mich. In contrast to Hill's father, who had been disabled for nearly a decade before his death, Maury was highly active...
...this month were summarily executed - jolting human rights groups who had just begun to condemn the imprisonment of the dissidents, whom Castro accused of being in the service of the U.S. What's behind the clampdown? Those close to Castro's inner circle say he feels insulted - and unusually nervous. With his economy in endless decline, he hoped the U.S. was set to relax its 40-year-old economic embargo against his communist regime. But the Bush Administration has managed to delay the U.S. Congress' antiembargo...
...show debut made Rappolt, a sophomore acting major at Northeastern, so nervous all night that she didn’t even notice how the audience was reacting to her performance...
...Every straphanger in the country is nervous of an underground attack. What's being done to protect the subway...