Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that when Feldmarschall von Hindenburg was chosen President, an old friend of army days said to him: "What will you do when you get nervous, as you must often be, among all those politicians and with all your new responsibilities...
...When I am nervous," replied President-elect von Hindenburg, "I whistle...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...
...pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs sketched upon a pad always in hand, to prove the qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril of the Daniel Guggenheim Graduate School of Aeronautics...
Hunter came out first; Cochet seemed to be nervous as they stood in front of the cup for the camera men. Hunter went through the first set, Cochet took the second, Hunter the third. After the five-minute rest, Cochet came out in a knitted shirt, his eyes looking huge and tired in his little pale face. He spurted five games; Hunter caught him; Cochet took the set and then, speeding up his game to somewhere near its peak, the last one. The scores...