Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would I make the Harvard football team? Well, that would be pretty hard to say; they're all so handsome that I'd be awfully nervous," said Miss Gypsy Rose Lee, enticing star of Boston's new home of burlesque, when interviewed last night by the CRIMSON Backstager. Sitting easily back, puffing a cigarette, her shapely legs resting on the dressing table, Miss Lee gave her opinions of Harvard men and many other things. "I've never known many Harvard men, but from what I've seen of them, they sure are handsome real...
...happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired his pistol several times, accidentally...
...Washington atmosphere nowadays is conducive to huffiness. Nervous strain crackles throughout the enormously complicated network of the New Deal boards, bureaus, councils, committees. The jar of personalities is added to honest differences of opinion...
Sent to Indo-China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve...
...rinus, who made the winning touchdown two years ago, snagged a 50-yd. forward pass to tie the score in the second period. Then Southern California battered St. Mary's back to its 23-yd. line and St. Mary's sent in a substitute guard. Green and nervous, the substitute immediately began chatting with his teammates-for-bidden before the ball was in play. The referee moved the ball to the 8-yd. line whence one play won the game for Southern California, 14-to-7. During the game Southern California was penalized 50 yd., St. Mary...