Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adults, Klebold had always come across as the bashful, nervous type who could not lie very well. Yet he managed to keep his dark side a secret. "People have no clue," Klebold says on one videotape. But they should have had. And this is one of the most painful parts of the puzzle, to look back and see the flashing red lights--especially regarding Harris--that no one paid attention to. No one except, perhaps, the Brown family...
...Sunday morning in the desert uplands north of Los Angeles, 15 disciples gather by a wire fence to absorb the teachings of a visiting guru. "Are you nervous?" the guru asks Katie Stangler, 16, in his thick Scottish brogue. Katie nods. "Ah, you don't have to be. Just do your usual thing, and forget I'm here. I'll come in and help you if you're struggling...
...next person, but not when it means endangering our wrists. It won't be too long before someone figures out that typing on a keyboard the size of a napkin while standing in front of a terminal carrying a hefty backpack can't be good for the nervous system...
...idea what we were getting ourselves into. On the phone a few weeks prior to the start of the Radcliffe Science Alliance, we nervously wondered how we had enlisted ourselves for an extra week of academia before beginning college in September. We pictured ourselves stranded amongst girl geniuses competing over how many digits of pi they could recite on command. But upon our arrival in Cambridge, we found, instead, 38 girls as nervous as ourselves, all unsure of the week, as well as the years, ahead of them...
With his Santa-like physique and festive clothing, Savage in his sleigh seems worlds apart from the nervous Keys, but they're filling similar slots this holiday season...