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...first game was close all the way to about 15 all, and then we started collecting points in groups,” Weintraub said. “Then they got nervous and started missing serves...
...championship game in both her freshman and sophomore seasons, the Crimson fell to Minnesota in both contests.But the captain can sense the difference in this year’s squad.“I think before when I played in the national championship games, we’ve been nervous,” Cahow said. “This year, we don’t read into the hype, we try not to read newspapers, we don’t look at statistics. We’re depending on what’s been working for us the entire season?...
...time police stop Claudio Alves's car on a dark street in Jardim Angela, one of Sao Paulo's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Not that he'd been doing anything to arouse suspicions, just pulling out of a side street and being young. But he is so nervous that when he accidentally steps on an officer's polished boot he tries to get down on his knees and wipe off the dust...
...ride home from the airport, once known as the Highway of Death because of the high incidence of insurgent attacks on commuters and military convoys, is remarkably stress-free. The Iraqi colleagues who have come to collect me laugh and joke as we drive; there's none of the nervous anxiety of previous trips. There are some Iraqi security forces along the road, but I see no American patrols...
...section of a Buenos Aires airport. Scanning the luggage of passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a resident of Key Biscayne with alleged links to President Hugo Chavez and a taste for red Ferraris. "He acted perfectly natural until I ordered him to open the bag. Then he did become uncomfortable...