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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fordham's defense tackled like nervous kids wearing glasses and looked several steps slower than Harvard's skill position players. Then all hell broke loose...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

There's a mob scene outside the restaurant, but there's quiet elegance inside, if you ignore the beefy bodyguards. Trump's putative First Lady is so nervous around the Reform Party kingmaker that she knocks over the crystal. But no one minds. It looks like a party made in heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Evening with Donald Trump | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...final credits. Lasseter first got the idea back in 1995 after watching his four youngest boys playing with his Woody collectibles. "My sons looooove to come to Daddy's work," says Lasseter. "But Daddy has one-of-a-kind toys, old and expensive, and he gets very nervous when the bulls are playing in the china shop. I found myself freaking--and laughing at myself." He also started thinking. Toys were meant to be played with. How must they feel about being put on the shelf? Out of that insight came the central plot line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pixar Animation Studios: Home of the Toys | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...kinds of creatures, even ones as lowly as snails, have protoselves, Damasio says, but they aren't really conscious. Consciousness, he explains, requires a nervous system sufficiently evolved and complex that the organism can hold in mind the image of a protoself's moving through and interacting with the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Of Consciousness | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...tour of Wu Chao-Chih's domain is potentially perilous. As the agile Taiwanese woman leads visitors through a cluttered site in suburban Taipei, she warns them to watch out for jagged steel and rusted pipes. But she doesn't seem too nervous about the crane that swings a ton of scrap metal just overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WU CHAO-CHIH: She Likes to Talk Trash | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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