Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING the mid-1970s, a "drugcourier profile" was developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to help federal agents identify possible traffickers. According to the DEA a "typical" drug runner is someone inappropriately dressed man with a big roll of cash who acts nervous around police. Unfortunately, this technique, which has led to scores of arrests across the country, is leading to the violation or infringement upon our basic civil rights...
...pretty nervous at first and then I got nervous again," Eckersley admitted. "I wanted to keep the crowd...
Like any other rookie in his first game, Sweeney will be nervous. He will also be anxious, eager for the puck to drop and the game to start...
Historians agree that John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...
...liar if I said I wasn't nervous," he said. "But I also am confident...