Word: nervous
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...pressure on fencers,” Brand said. “We lighten things up, play a lot of games and take the pressure off. The team is so close to each other right now, it’s a double-edged sword. Maybe they are too nervous they are going to lose for each other...
Emily: I was nervous. I thought it would be one of those weird set-ups, that I would be set up with a twelve-year-old boy from a local elementary school or something. Luckily, that didn’t happen...
...your room picked out - now what? Pre-measuring and cutting the plastic to fit each opening (i.e. windows and vents) can save a lot of time later. Having this plastic ready to go may mean the difference between having a nervous breakdown and having a nervous breakdown while affixing large sheets of vinyl to your windows...
J.F.K. was a nervous man on the morning Alan Shepard climbed into Freedom 7. Always a skeptic about the technical claims of engineers and scientists, Kennedy glumly watched Shepard's launch with his hands jammed in his pockets, expecting the worst. Yet Shepard went smoothly in and out of space in 15 minutes and got the monkey off Kennedy's back...
...interesting 2002 for the women's auxiliary means a hotter Oscar race. Kidman, Moore, Streep, Zellweger, Lane, Hayek, Zeta-Jones, Vardalos--all are worthy of having their names announced next week and of spending the next six weeks wondering if they will be giving a nervous, ecstatic thank-you speech...