Word: jitter
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...again fell hard. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped five points to 270.73, a low point for the year. Down with it went the rail and utility averages. Investors sold not only because they were worried over economic adjustments which peace in Korea might bring; they also began to jitter-with little cause-that the vast outpourings of civilian goods would soon pile up big surpluses and bring cutbacks in production...
...striking perspective, but best of all is his Village nightclub with deep reds, clutter of paintings, and mammoth mobiles. His costumes for the dances staged by Donald Saddler are equally imaginative, particularly in an expressive number about the sister's hunt for job's and in the adagio jitter-bug of the nightclub scene...
...best guys seemed to go." They returned with most of the fire and wanderlust burned out of them, and headed for comfortable berths in movie and radio studios: marriage and one-night stands do not mix. And the fans themselves are different. Unlike the openmouthed mobs who used to jitter right into the bell of Benny Goodman's clarinet, the new generation seems to "dance easier than they used to. You don't see the place hopping as it did in the old days...
...fever chart"-using a special kind of emotional arithmetic, adding two and two to get zero. Luckman preferred to add U.S. employment of 59 million (still close to its alltime high), savings of $200 billion and a purchasing power 53% higher than prewar. "Too many . . . have accepted the jabber-jitter estimates of what is wrong with America, instead of finding out . . . what is right...
...judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...