| 21. | But thousands of others with big stakes are also on tenterhooks : USAir customers with frequent-flier accounts.
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| 22. | So why do we say we're " on tenterhooks " when we're nervous?
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| 23. | Grozny has been a ruin so long that life on tenterhooks has become normal, supplanting whatever existed before.
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| 24. | Ambrose exploited a slight bounce on the wicket and bowled a tight length, keeping the Zimbabwean batsmen on tenterhook.
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| 25. | But the unions have discovered that they can exert pressure just by keeping Metro-North and its riders on tenterhooks.
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| 26. | The families, he said, were kept on tenterhooks that more riots may break out in the next few days.
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| 27. | Between hardline Seoul and soft-pedaling Washington, the North Koreans have enjoyed a license to keep the world on tenterhooks.
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| 28. | The garrison town of Highcliff is on tenterhooks waiting for the return of the last British soldiers from war-torn Helmand.
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| 29. | Democrats and Republicans were not the only ones on tenterhooks for the 37 days it took to decide who would be the next president.
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| 30. | The fear and haste with which the villagers fled showed just how they have been living on tenterhooks, expecting a catastrophe at any moment.
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