Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman said: "We were told by the police that we had to come here, and we didn't argue. We just came." Others had a better understanding. Said Jonah Dangaremdizi, a villager: "This is the first time we have voted, so it is natural that some of us are nervous. Peace is really what we want." Solomon Mauura, a chiefs messenger, was more explicit about his expectations: "We have had the war because we had no African leader. Now that we are voting one in, we hope he will bring an end to the fighting...
...Kids, what do you call it when a gelatinous, undulating mass of 17 hockey teams has shrunk to a compressed--but not radioactive--bubble of four squads, all confident, all talented, all more than a bit nervous? You call it the NHL semifinals, and that's where we begin tonight...
...work from this failing is his visual flair and range of notation. He has a virtuoso's fist, and can with equal conviction parody the cartoony style of a '40s detective-novel cover or produce the near life-size portrait, The Hispanist, 1977-78, a nervous, delicate laying-on of paint, Klimt-like in its dandified preci on. One always feels that what is there is fully meant to be there...
...Nervous Eaters...
...Nervous Eaters...