Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Secretary of the party. More significant to Hungary experts was the simultaneous promotion of Antal Apro to First Deputy Premier; Apro leads the extreme Stalinist group that has been fighting Kadar for leadership. At the top in Hungary there are tough Communists and tougher Communists. Already many nervous Hungarians wonder if the despised Kadar was not the lesser of the evils...
...Bride. Though he enjoys his fame and his riches, Willie Hartack has not yet found how to be comfortable with either. From his $50,000 ranch house, among the garish candy-colored villas of Miami, Bill indulges his passing whims (e.g., water skiing and skindiving). Visitors make him nervous as they leave burning cigarettes on expensive table tops and track sand on lush new carpets, stare at his specially commissioned mural of knights in armor, gawk at the somber black decor of the master bedroom with its giant closet of 40 suits, or at the bookshelves stocked only with Racing...
...against U.S. innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another level the book is a nervous and indirect reconnaissance of the borders of that undiscovered country of love to which Greene is always journeying without ever quite arriving...
Then it was air time, and the chaos fell into order. The stiff breeze slammed Mamie's dressing screen to the ground just off-camera (it was righted on time), tore her flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who managed to keep his footing at the pool's edge, almost lifted Announcer Gene Rayburn off the diving board on the wings of a placard picturing Co-Sponsor Greyhound's mascot. But the show hung together and the pictures moved surely and crisply to the mainland, so that...
...more years of court fights before he was solidly in control. For his trouble, Bob Young got control of $2 billion worth of assets, including the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and Missouri Pacific. But in the intense strain of the battle, he also suffered a nervous breakdown. His sandy hair had turned white, and at 45 he looked 15 years older...