Unlike what was to come within a year, she wasn't singing to her own fans, caught up in the giddy confidence that they'd follow her on whatever flights of fancy she felt like taking in any given song.

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He was said to have been giddy at the thought of going up against the anti-war former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who at one time looked as though he would be the Democrat candidate.

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After 15 years of teaching in the Boston Public Schools I still wake up every day eager, and even giddy, to take on this challenge and calling.

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This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).

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They also have an ace up their sleeve, a trump card that puts a giddy spin on the third act at just that point where both the previous movies began to run out of stream.

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Likewise, when the market has gone up for several periods in a row and we are all giddy, we may be at the point of maximum risk.

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