Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life at its maximum intensity." But Louis grins wickedly and says: "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know." In his boyhood New Orleans, jazz was simply a story told in strongly rhythmic song, pumped out "from the heart" with a nervous, exciting beat. To Trumpeter Louis, jazz is still storytelling: "I like to tell them things that come naturally...
Optimism pervaded farther west on Mount Auburn st. at J. Press. "Lot's of people in this business are nervous, but I can't see why," said manager Al Goro. "Sure business is a little slower and its my opinion that prices will case off a little...
...Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...
...Chicago grain pits, traders had a nervous eye on the calendar. Exactly a year ago, grain prices had tumbled in the worst shakeout in seven years. Last week traders had more than the calendar to make them nervous. The Department of Agriculture announced that it would not put any acreage restrictions on this year's corn crop. With the market already glutted, that seemed to mean another big crop and still lower prices ahead...
...mind for 20 years. For the last five, he has been reading himself up to date, and his new book's fat bibliography ranges from Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (by Maud Bodkin) to The Hypothalamus and Central Levels of Autonomic Function (by the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases). Unfortunately, Insight and Outlook is likely to be gobbledygook to the average reader and without much meat even for the most dogged philosopher...