Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is man?" "Most essentially, he is a bundle of nervous tissue." The venerable professor nodded with pride...
Choked Up. In El Paso, arrested for stealing a car 1,125 miles away in New Orleans, Melvin Elaine explained that the car started accidentally and he was too nervous to stop it until he reached El Paso...
...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
...private guest, Bishop Fulton Sheen of Manhattan (a close friend of Leopold's and Liliane's)-drove through the cheering streets to the five-century-old St. Gu dule Church. There a shaky but beautiful bride, alternating between stifled giggles and sobs, and a grim, nervous but handsome groom in a resplendent new uniform of a naval commander, heard themselves for the second time pronounced man and wife. "Italy," said the gallant old (85) Cardinal van Roey to the new Princess of Liege, "sends you to Belgium as a ray of its beautiful sun and a reflection...
...fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, his short hair . . . combed down over his forehead, his eyes blinking incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles as though he had just emerged into strong light, his lips nibbling each other like nervous horses...