Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open the vault and don't get nervous or we'll kill you," ordered the leader. Juncadella did as he was told. The robbers scooped up hundreds of bank notes and cleaned out the cash windows. Eight minutes after entering the bank, they walked out into the sun-baked Prado, crossed to the shady side where their cars were waiting, and drove away. It was the biggest bank robbery in Cuba's history. Total take...
...Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...paced his room in San Francisco's Hotel Stewart last week, Isaac Garrett Fox neither looked nor felt like a desperado. He was 53-a sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...survey, reported in the magazine Diseases of the Nervous System, three members of the Chicago Psychiatric Institute made an intensive study of 100 people who lived after trying to kill themselves. Of the 100 cases, 40 were sent to mental hospitals, another 26 needed psychiatric care...
Euphoria & Rebuffs. At Rugby Brooke was noted for his prehensile toes, with which he could shoot marbles; at Cambridge he tried to act, but was poor at it; and he paid for his remarkable euphoria in fits of nervous depression. He was not always irresistible. Amy Lowell stood up and shouted "Speak up, speak up" at one of his readings; Ford Madox Ford elegantly rebuffed...