Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nervous Rash. Chile last week declared Zervino persona non grata. The Chilean press, handling the case with kid gloves, printed the court's findings without comment. The Argentine press broke out in a nervous rash of abuse...
Freshman runners were all nervous, according to Coach Mikkola, but they showed up well. They beat the Ram mile squad with a slow 3:33.7, and they finished third in front of the varsity in the two-mile event...
...walking while hunting at Windsor; that night, after attending a British Legion Remembrance Festival, he complained that his right foot bothered him, but the next day he stood in the rain during a Remembrance Day service. Since he took over the throne his brother abdicated twelve years ago, the nervous, shy, self-effacing King has probably changed uniforms more often, shaken more hands, listened to more speeches, and laid more wreaths than any other chief of state in modern times...
Last week, Elizabeth was wearing a saucy cone of green felt on her head to conceal the place that was shaved during the operation. She was well enough to board a plane for home. She was bright and cheerful; there were no signs of nervous symptoms. She would have a long rest; then, if the operation had been a complete success, a new future...
Miss Sitwell's earlier poems were hardly congenial to U.S. tastes. One critic thought of them as an artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...