Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will positively finish the subway on time, Comrade Kaganovitch!" cried the nervous Chief Engineer. "Moscow will have a subway all complete...
...band swung into the "Marseillaise" and the master of ceremonies bellowed: "Now we come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...career in a suburban parlor. He took up table tennis at his home in Baling, became proficient enough to win the world's championship at Budapest in 1929. In 1930, when he was 20, his mother, to whom he was devoted, died after a long illness. Her son's nervous and physical condition was then so poor that doctors despaired of keeping him alive unless he discovered some absorbing outdoor interest. Perry took a six months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which he had taught himself on a public court in London...
...record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry's demeanor is more like that of Jean Borotra than of any other player of the last decade. He uses nervous, snapping strokes, starts his racket near the ball, curtails his follow-through. His most outstanding shot is a forehand drive executed on a rising ball as he runs toward the net. He volleys with more power than finesse, serves hard but without either the finality or the waste of energy that characterizes...
...Jackson enjoined relatives and neighbors to remember that "Donald al ways was a nervous boy. And it's probably worry, his job and all, that did it. Even in school, when other boys laughed and played, Donald worried...