Among those feeling anxious were the executives who negotiated a £30m, four-year deal to televise racing on ITV from 2017.
West Ham's wingers in the second half against Wolves, Junior Stanislas and Alessandro Diamanti, failed utterly to track back, so anxious were they to make inroads at the other end.
Last season: 4-12 So anxious were the Buccaneers about their poor offensive line play in preseason, they traded away tight end Tim Wright and a fourth-round pick in return for New England's Logan Mankin.
Two of Hamid Karzai's brothers planned to ask for asylum in the US, while other family members stayed away and kept their money out of Afghanistan – so anxious were they that the Afghan president would lose last year's election.
The lead author, Dr. Susan Turk Charles, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine, said that research over the last decade had shown that stereotypes of older people as "depressed, lonely and anxious" were off base.
While he was on the pitch Arsenal simply could not get the ball; and when they did, so anxious were they to use it to good effect, they quickly lost it.
