And I stand there with eager anticipation as people who have fought or whose relatives have fought and often died in our wars come through the line.

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In the days before the race, the mood among the drivers tended toward eager if antsy anticipation.

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Do you skip to the office every morning, whistling a happy tune, with an eager sense of anticipation about what the day might have in store?

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But the endless parade of Murakami-Bourgeois-Fontana-Warhol-Hirst is becoming so tedious one almost begins to dread these events where once the opening of an art fair sparkled with excited anticipation and eager chatter over new discoveries.

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