Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case shook Clayton to the core. "I feel scared," said white-haired Widow Hathaway. "I'm all tight inside, like nervous tension." Then, looking out of the window at McFall's restaurant, she cried, "Oh, how can they just sit over there looking...
...back on the podium for the first time since a serious operation in December put her throat out of commission. She was nervous at first, opening with two sitting ducks, Exactly Like You and Keep It a Secret. These first numbers she hit casually and with a pronounced beat, just warming up. A voice from the floor asked for some bop. Ella gave the nod to her piano man, Hank Jones, and the audience knew that this was still the old Fitzgerald...
...Jerusalem flat, Rabbi Klemes let himself down into a comfortable chair and tuned in the radio. "Tonight you will hear a recording of this morning's broadcast from Moscow," said the announcer. Frail old (74) Jacob Klemes, who had slipped out of Russia in 1934 after nine nervous years as Rabbi of Moscow, leaned forward, the better to hear his mother tongue. Half an hour later his housekeeper found him dead...
...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
...Nervous." Winging back & forth to Cuba, where racing is allowed on Sundays, Tony rode 15 more winners, still needed four, with only two racing days remaining in 1952. "I think I'll break the record now," said Tony. "I'm not nervous-just kind of tight." Tony loosened up enough-and got enough breaks from sympathetic owners-to ride winners in the second and third races the next day and to tie the record with a winner in the fourth. Tony's quest ended in the last race astride a horse aptly named King's Quest...