Word: fidgets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again last week and proceeded to horrify the devout. At the dedication of a new textile-industries research building in the city of Ahmadabad, Nehru grew stone-faced when a Brahman priest placed a tilaka mark on his forehead. The priest chanted some monotonous slokas, and Nehru began to fidget in annoyance. The Brahman then grasped the Prime Minister's shoulders and asked him to touch the wall of the building in a ceremonial gesture of blessing. At this, Nehru angrily brushed the priest aside and rasped: "I cannot stand this business!" Later, in his dedication speech, Nehru, with...
Director Richard Heffron keeps things under control and, but for moments in the final act, has the pace so exhilarating that none of the audience found it necessary to talk or fidget. In fact, only during some overlong and poorly selected songs (i.e. "John Henry") between acts by producer Dean Gitter did the audience do anything but gaze with admiration at a thoroughly delightful production...
...grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...
...English film, "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as old Ebenezer Scrooge. Sims gives something to the word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...
Then Little David went on to describe what would happen if Jesus arrived at twelve o'clock that night. "The skies will break apart, thunder will crash, and the body of Christ will come rocketing down through the stratosphere, the atmosphere, and into the hemisphere!" The audience began to fidget nervously, an old man on my right looked up at the roof in horror, but the show was just beginning...