Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know whether our doubts are entirely due to the seasonal slush or the boredom of the examination period. Perhaps the scientists and the politicians should rightfully share part of the guilt. Every year now, we've felt that it's only through a chance combination of treaties, agreements, and nervous glances across barbed-wire border that we will see the next Spring. Even at the present time, there is a meteorological convention in Berlin that will probably decide to reverse the order of the seasons and put Spring where Fall now is. Such a move would stabilize the temperament...
...Jack," proclaimed a Denver radio announcer at station-break time last week, "you're not in it, you're just not in it, I mean you're really not in it if you haven't joined the Colorado Air Guard. It's real nervous." "Down boy, don't bother me," said another voice. "The . . . Air Guard really sends me . . . Charlie, it's real gone...
...were sidling up to waiters and barkeeps to whisper the cryptic words: "Any orchard chops?" Often as not, the bartender would reply 'with a knowing wink and lead the customer around to a hidden door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp, the lucky Madrileno would swallow it, claws, beak...
...mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...
According to Tenley, you can't get nervous before a Championship. Any tenseness would ruin your form. As to her feelings after a victory she says: "There were so many speeches and pictures after my World title it was three in the morning before I had time to feel happy...