Word: fidgeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Really, they're turning this building into an armed fortress with locks on everything." Fidget. fidget. "There's nothing critical in here. but last time they just botched up the files so bad we had to spend weeks cleaning them...
...Thrett are less apparent when they open their mouths than when they take off their clothes, but Jones and Mimieux actually manage to bring an air of wounded innocence to their roles. Jones has an unhappy tendency to recite many of his lines with a kind of Method fidget, but he could yet become one of the better young actors in Hollywood. As Tobey, Yvette Mimieux uses her doe-eyed vulnerability to maximum effect. Her fragile beauty could reduce any ethics professor to acute schizophrenia and radicalize the entire student body of Southern Methodist University...
Aches in the Solar Plexus. Pinpointing a problem that plagues his business, Homer writes: "The president of your bank hates bonds. The mere sound of the word starts up a dull ache in his solar plexus. This makes him fidget. Bonds, he knows, are things the bank has to buy when there is no demand for loans; they are also things the bank has to sell when there is a demand for loans and interest rates are high. Somehow or other this usually involves a loss." As for coexistence with the stock market, writes Homer, "the bond market provides...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
...fidget with the digits...