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• Made demands on
• Not loosey-goosey
• Like most income
• Demanded money, government-style
• Tense, as relations
• Needing a massage, say
• Past condition?
• Past, present or future
• Nail-biting
• Suspense-filled
• Frazzled
• Feeling nervous
• Took a toll
• In need of a backrub
• Grammarian's subject