Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Experiments-Nervously Japanese businessmen awaited the new Finance Minister's first pronouncement. They were even more nervous after scanning what Mr. Baba had to say. Speaking obviously as the Army's Stooge, he announced "increased taxes, new experiments, the raising of Japanese defenses to a satisfactory state, restitution of the farming and fishing industries and expansion of the Nation's strength...
...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
...last year, it sucked him into a political vortex of danger and unease so critical that his friends were unfairly suspected of having poisoned his chief antagonist, the late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung hard on the wheel, narrowly saved himself and only slightly nicked the Greek street car. Three days later...
...last minute she wires Naomi that she cannot come, cannot face it. The little boy is heartbroken, recovers in time to meet his stepfather, who comes instead, in a well-meaning but highly nervous condition. At his first marvelous sight of Paris at night, the little boy forgets his dreamed-for mother and his tragic...
...handsome artist who had painted Christina's portrait. Tony volunteered the information that he had been in love with her, asked her to be his mistress but she had refused. Brand felt momentarily better. Then in turn he visited: a less talented neurotic, on the verge of a nervous breakdown; his ex-chauffeur; a down-&-out book-reviewer. Three men on the list he failed to see. One, a religious maniac, had shot himself; another, a famed athlete, had disappeared; the third, an elderly artist who had painted Christina in the nude before her marriage, died before Brand could...