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  • As to the Canadian hockey team, people get worked-up over the littlest things, I understand that there needs to be rules for this stuff otherwise people would be rioting after every win, but come on.

    Howard Hughes Forgets How to Sleep myownpetard 2010

  • I rarely see much tangible progress on that front, which is why the "space is hard" claims always get me worked-up! former CA resident

    Another Launch Delay for STS-119 - NASA Watch 2009

  • It is not improbable that Parliament had been stampeded by a worked-up excitement in its lobbies; for very soon it appeared that the great mass of Englishmen were unchanged in their opinion of proper colonial policy; and, as was discovered in later years, the stoppage of the American trade did not seriously injure the business or commercial interests of England.

    True History of the American Revolution « Isegoria 2008

  • Despite his worked-up nerves, he fell asleep again.

    Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010

  • An interesting intermediate case is kudos, which I get moderately worked-up about, but not as much as over failsafe

    Progress At Last Newmania 2008

  • I'm off to find something else to get worked-up about.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Andres Guadamuz 2009

  • I'm off to find something else to get worked-up about.

    Amazonfail: cyber-censorship, cyber-hype, or YHBT? Andres Guadamuz 2009

  • To a large degree, the campaign's strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, and successfully portrayed Clinton and her campaign as unscrupulous race-baiters -- a campaign-within-the-campaign in which the worked-up flap over the Somali costume photograph is but the latest episode.

    Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card" 2009

  • The remainder are a mish-mash of online and offline submissions which by their nature have a hard time making us laugh or cry and, so, a hard time getting us worked-up enough to think happier thoughts about the state of advertising creative in the world today.

    Jarvis Coffin: Cannes Demonstrates the Shifting Ad Landscape 2009

  • There was a sodden moralism in the comments on this subject in the New York Times and elsewhere that bodes ill for discussion of less worked-up issues.

    David Bromwich: Imus is Gone, Snoop Dogg Remains: Are We Happy Now? 2008

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