Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonexistent. He raced back to Washington to fight for his old position, decided to resign instead. He bitterly complained of Mrs. Rumsey's amateur methods and personnel, obliquely flayed the appointment of Mrs. Johnson to handle consumers' grievances. Meanwhile Mrs. Rumsey had suffered a nervous collapse, gone off to Newport to recover...
With visions of fame and gold medals on his expanding chest one student took to shells and determined to be the hero of the regatta. Of course, there was a woman in it. With patience that would have given early Christians martyrs nervous breakdowns he retired at 10, ate raw beefsteak with much champing of teeth and eschewed cigarettes. Yes, he picked the most popular race and came in last in his qualifying heat...
...crowd, nervously exhilarated, began not to cheer but to laugh at Perry's nervous blunders. Merlin, with a strange assurance, as though sure of bringing to pass one of those magical victories that have kept the Davis Cup in France so often before, held up his hand for silence. Working hard now and measuring every point, playing himself slowly back to his best game, Perry won the next two sets 8-6, 6-2. From 1-4 in the fourth Merlin brought the score up to 4-all, then 5-all. Perry, in danger now of slipping back into...
...list of U. S. osteopaths pre-eminent for scholarship as well as expertness would include: for orthopedics, George M. Laughlin of Kirksville, Mo.; for mental and nervous diseases, Arthur G. Hildreth of Macon, Mo. and Edward S. Merrill of Los Angeles; for manipulative osteopathy, Charles S. Green of Manhattan; for industrial accidents, Harry Goehring of Pittsburgh; for care of athletes, Forrest Allen of University of Kansas...
Vines came out on the court white with nervous fatigue, his sides taped and a bandage on the ankle he had twisted two days before. He won the first set 6-1, netted most of his shots as he lost the second without taking a game, outplayed Perry in the third, 6-4. and was ahead at 3-2 in the fourth when he fell, trying to recover one of Perry's cross-court drives. Obviously hurt, he managed to finish the set, which Perry won 7-5. Vines's service and the pace he gave his drives...