Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...
...employer and his employes," to quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes in return for the granting of virtually all demands known to have been made by strikers. Boomed joyous Jouhaux as his fat fingers signed, "not merely a success but the greatest victory for workers which the history of trade...
Especially nervous was The City, London's fiscal nerve center. There British businessmen arriving from Paris last week told their colleagues that France was in a state of bloodless revolution; that a violent and possibly Fascist reaction might be just around the corner; that French Fascism might soon turn upon the Jews, beginning with Premier Blum. Although such reports as these duly perturbed The City, Gentile British financiers remarked that the chief alarmists seemed to be British Jews...
...Davis is no banker. "I probably will be of little use on the Board until another such period [as the post-War depression] comes along," said the slight, nervous, greying farm expert last week, referring to what he considered the sorry lack of coordination in Federal banking and agricultural policy at that time. Born 48 years ago on an Iowa farm, Chester Davis has spent his entire adult life thinking about farmers, first as an editor of a farm paper, then as organizer of Montana's State Department of Agriculture, later as grain-marketing director of the Illinois Agricultural...
...normal course by the excessive use of analgesics may cause great damage to her personality. If she is carried through delivery in an unconscious state, she is deprived of the experience of giving birth to her child and in some cases will pay for this escape from reality by nervous disorders...