Word: nervous
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...first in Helsinki, he appeared nervous and ill at ease. When he entered Finlandia Hall's blue-and-white main auditorium, he looked so diffident that some onlookers mistook him for a diplomatic aide. One who did not make that error was Shultz, who strode purposefully from his front-row seat to shake hands with the Foreign Minister and introduce himself. When a journalist asked Shevardnadze to stop and answer questions, the Foreign Minister shrugged, grinned and replied, "They won't let me," apparently a reference to his aides...
...depend upon them. Consider, for example, the hyped-up physician who told Clance about his long battle to keep his fears under control. "It was wearing me out pretending to be a doctor," he confided. He eventually realized that his unfounded obsession with imminent failure had driven him to nervous exhaustion, adversely affecting his marriage and his friendships...
...easily avoidable fiasco began with the inexplicable decision by two Border Patrol officers that Medvid had not been seeking asylum and should be returned to his ship. The agents did not speak Ukrainian, so they telephoned a translator in New York, who interviewed the nervous sailor while one agent listened. The interpreter, Irene Padoch, insisted that Medvid had made it clear that he was seeking asylum "to live in an honest country" and that she told this to the agents. Nonetheless, they signed an order that Medvid be returned to his ship...
...fiddling with the form is greeted with skepticism. Boyer speaks of "the sartorially regrettable 1960s," and Flusser's prose, wobbly at best ("unlike in England, where striped suits are commonplace ..."), goes into nervous collapse at the very mention of the decade. Flusser wants men to stick to a half-century-old notion of tailored splendor, personified by the likes of Cary Grant, Fred Astaire and the Duke of Windsor--all pictured in Clothes and the Man--and exemplified by a range of softly draped clothing, much of it designed by Flusser and also pictured here, frequently...
Knox, one eye on the nervous mom, stands ready to throw a calf as soon as two twirling lariats snag it, front and back. When the ropes hit their mark, Knox dashes out, yanks the tail and upends the bawling animal. Before the dust can rise, Knox is on his knees, pinning a front leg back to immobilize the calf. Other cowpunchers burn the brand, vaccinate the animal and castrate it. No wasted motion, no unnecessary energy...