Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, when I first stepped into the President's office I was nervous. It looked like it was going to be harder than I had expected...
Father Burns was pale and nervous now, fidgeting with his grey moustache. Without waiting to be asked, he burst...
...against me and I'm nervous. Nothing serious?well, just jiminy fits, I guess...
...that nearly everyone looked at it once when they came in and a second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...
After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...