Word: fidgets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence. At other times Mr. Gistirak has his charges constantly engaged in doing little pantomines, in running about the stage, in forming picturesque groupings and dissolving them again, in doing all sorts of unnecessary busy-work. Mr. McNamara especially has been induced, or at least allowed, to pace and fidget and mug past the point of caricature. Synge's purplest prose is as natural and spontaneous as a wild flower, but Mr. Gistirak has tried to manure it with shovelfuls of staginess...
...already, through the highceilinged, 48-year-old Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire...
...confusion and complexity" of when, how, why. and if to intervene more strikingly illustrated than in the American diplomatic camp. U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was an aging (67), old-line Missouri politician with a passion for poker. British Agent Bruce Lockhart recalled that after dinner, "Francis began to fidget like a child who wishes to return to its toys. His rattle, however, was a deck of cards." Ambassador Francis' poker-faced response to the Russian enigma was to hole up 250 miles north of Moscow in the town of Vologda, where he received garbled telegraphic reports from...
...nicely. The scene in which, as a demonstration of technique, the eccentric old Laird and a sledge hammer wind each other up and hurl themselves into space is exquisite. The Laird becomes a most amusing exaggeration of a country squire with the overplaying of Alastair Sim, who can squint, fidget, grimace, say nothing at great length, and provoke laughter as well as any British character alive. The large Wee Geordie is played by Bill Travers, who in such a "natural man" role, does not have much positive acting to do, yet does it well...
...elite of London's financial and industrial world was waiting to meet them. As they took their seats in the vast gold-columned Egyptian hall, they were serenaded by the Honorable Artillery Company band. Bulganin replied to toasts in a long, rambling speech which made the assembled capitalists fidget. When he quoted "an old Russian saying that Moscow was not built in a day," the hall rocked with laughter, without Bulganin having any idea what the joke was about...