Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others she was "Joan" or "Mary") and arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find out he was doing this." But, said Miss Bentley, he brought her "scraps of paper"-notes about aircraft production-and once he brought her "a formula for making synthetic rubber from garbage...
...doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters, she got some details of the B-29 bomber, data on other new types of planes, and the destinations of planes to war theaters. Between nervous puffs on a cigarette, she said: "We knew about D-day long before D-day happened...
...called Golden Rule Acres. Last week, Bernie got a fine funeral at Boland's mortuary in Peoria. He was laid out in a $3,000 bronze casket, got four roomfuls of flowers. But it looked as though the Sheltons were cooked. Old Earl was a nervous man; he kept looking sidewise and complained bitterly that the law was giving him no protection...
...them knew a runner who got so nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden's famed miler, Lennart Strand, gets absentminded; he recently went out for a race without his running shirt...
...worth all this nervous strain...