Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving at the GM Building about nine, Weaver lopes down the long corridor with a mess of manila folders under his arm, a cigaret stub in his nervous mouth. To preserve his more-or-less professorial role in a high-pressure company, he dresses with studied informality-slouch hat, tweedy, sloppy suit. He is short, bowlegged, has Clark Gable ears and hair cropped short because it tends to be kinky...
...stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life" in Carnegie Hall and art galleries, writes light topical verse, travels much in Europe, wears thick glasses, has a bad stomach, and in general exhibits the intellectual precocity, the urbane humor, the tastes and the slightly nervous detachment which seem as native to Manhattan as The New Yorker...
...experience, a few skilled men like Malraux's friend Abel Guidez, who brought down six Fascist planes in the early weeks of the war, was eventually shot down near Bilbao after he had left the air force and was flying a French commercial-line passenger plane. Intense and nervous, with limited flying experience himself, Malraux made 65 flights over Fascist territory, was twice injured in crashes. His daily routine while writing Man's Hope was that of other Loyalist fliers-getting up before dawn, taking a bus from the Hotel Florida to the big municipal airport at Barajas...
Elementary laboratory periods have a tension all their own when poor, nervous students are graded by eagle-eyed assistants every time they lift their fingers...
Instead of introducing drugs into the fluid of the spinal canal, and affecting the entire circulatory and nervous systems, the anesthetists filled the empty epidural space at the base of the spine (between the inner wall of the spinal column and the sheath of the spinal cord) with 30-60 cubic centimeters of distilled water solutions of pantocain. metycaine, intracaine or other similar local anesthetics...