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Instead, they show just how on-edge security officials are as they seek to prevent any new terror attacks 10 years after Sept. 11, 2001.
Jet Incidents Show Unease Adam Entous 2011
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"It creates an on-edge feeling and you don't realize how much of the lecture you're missing," Hackman says.
Smartphone dependency: a growing obsession with gadgets 2011
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Even his stalking around the stage and swatting the hands of fans seems angry and on-edge.
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Billy Porter's finger-snapping Belize, Bill Heck's profoundly tormented Joe, Kazan's on-edge Harper are all persuasive.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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Billy Porter's finger-snapping Belize, Bill Heck's profoundly tormented Joe, Kazan's on-edge Harper are all persuasive.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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The only people to whom she talked about traffic these days were the Ethiopians who manned the garage-booth in the mornings, a father and twenty-year-old son, they smiled at her because she was a fellow foreigner, they understood on-edge Indian mothers who drove in early to work in order to take care of their families.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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Do we really want to drive with the on-edge mind-set of air-traffic controllers?
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011
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Billy Porter's finger-snapping Belize, Bill Heck's profoundly tormented Joe, Kazan's on-edge Harper are all persuasive.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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Alternating chapters are told from the point of view of Carolyn or are told in the third person, shifting perspectives that keep you on-edge and guessing right up to the end.
May 2008 Maxine 2008
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Alternating chapters are told from the point of view of Carolyn or are told in the third person, shifting perspectives that keep you on-edge and guessing right up to the end.
Where are you now? by Mary Higgins Clark Maxine 2008
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