Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two years suffering with nervous indigestion. I tried a week's fast-induced by reading Upton Sinclair's articles on fasting as a cure. I ate nothing, drank only water. (Incidentally, I had just had my tonsils removed on the day my fast began...
...Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...
Rank on rank, Fascist crowds piled into the spacious Piazza Venezia last week to honor the 2687th birthday of Rome. Nervous after an exhausting week in which he had endeavored to balance Italy's lopsided budget by cutting government salaries from 6% to 12%, ordering rents and the prices in government-controlled stores reduced from 12% to 15%, and raising bachelors' income taxes 10% and 25%, Benito Mussolini strode to the balcony to make a speech...
Died. Jiro Satoh. 26. captain of Japan's Davis Cup team, onetime ninth ranking player of the world; by leaping into the sea from a liner bound for England and the second Davis Cup round (with Australia); off Singapore. Lately he had been nervous, off his game, had wanted to return to Japan but tennis officials urged him to continue to England. His fiancee. Sanaye Okada, also a tennis player, said his last letters had not been despondent...
Physicians led lanky Henry Harrington into an operating room, stood him up against a wall. Patient Harrington took a look at the Gastro-Photo, grew nervous. "Open your mouth wide," commanded Dr. Falenks, forthwith thrusting into his mouth a metal cylinder two inches long and one-half inch thick, attached to a long rubber tube. Punctured by 16 pinholes, the cylinder contained a tiny flash bulb and two pieces of film...