Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't very wise myself, but I'd grown sensible enough to be definitely an coward forever," Bardamn declares. It is here that he plucks at the most vulnerable nervous fibre of the French--the secret doubt of their own courage that arises not from national cowardice but from the memory of the last war with its indescribable weariness, interminable sleeplessness, horror, death, filth and inevitable thousands of mutineers...
...same month last year but the March-April gain was only 8% against an eight-year average of 29%. Motormen began to suspect that not consumer demand but fear of such strikes as occurred last week in the Fisher Body plant had piled their desks high with orders from nervous dealers. The shifting wind in Detroit cooled Pittsburgh because automobile plants are steel's best customers. Furnaces grew hotter last week but the price of scrap steel was weak. More than one-half of all new steel is made from old steel, and the price of scrap, which steelmen...
...brown filly owned by Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). She won five out of her eight starts last year, among them the Lassie Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a stepping stone for such Derby winners as Twenty Grand. Point against her is that she is nervous in large fields, is said to be "so inbred she is her own aunt...
Peterson's play is noteworthy because he was naturally under a nervous strain, competing against the 75 already chalked up by Chester Birch, captain of the Dartmouth team...
...fifth-floor office in Washington's old Post Office Department Building all one day last week trooped hopeful airline operators with sealed bids for the nation's airmail. After a two-month cycle of fury and futility they thought they were about to get back what a nervous Government had snatched from them. When the deadline for receiving bids came and went, an underling scooped up 45 thick envelopes, tied them into a bundle, stuffed them into a vault...