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...ragged cut on his forehead, the three-year-old was screaming, bleeding, sweating and kicking hard; it was just that he was even louder and stronger than most. Fortunately, I had two really excellent pediatric ER nurses and a medical student to help, and the talk with the nervous, well-dressed parents had gone well; they didn't ask to stay in the room while we worked, retreating instead to seats in the hall near the big door to the trauma room...
...taking off the magic towel now and he will wake up' I told myself and the kid in a slow, loud and slightly nervous voice. Then magic again; as if suspended in mid-scream, he turned right back on. Yowling, mouth wide-open, writhing again for dear life, but now with my nice, neat row of 6-0 nylons underneath a nice clean dressing, very securely taped to his little forehead...
...weather makes Diego's younger brother Andrea Della Valle, 40, vice president of Tod's S.p.A., very nervous. Even after the elicottero has floated up several hundred feet and the 100-acre estate below?tennis court, boccie court, soccer field, man-made lake, lemon and olive groves and church included?has receded into the distance and there's not much left to view except gray fluff, Andrea keeps a watchful eye out the window. It's not surprising, given the family dynamic. Andrea plays the goalie to Diego's striker, the introverted, behind-the-scenes power broker to Diego...
Narrated from the perspective of a thirtysomething Lee, “Prep” fluidly vacillates between the point of view of the older and wiser and the nervous teenage version of the character. This temporal transition is so seamless, in fact, that the reader easily absorbs the adult musings without growing detached from high school Lee’s emotions...
...game, a stark contrast to the teams’ February game in which Harvard dominated from the first jump. “We’ve come out tight in a lot of our games,” Tay said, “and we’re just nervous. We don’t get comfortable until about 10 or 15 minutes into the game.” Rollins scored the Crimson’s first 10 points to help Harvard overcome its characteristic first-half doldrums, which plagued the team in Friday night’s game...