Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a few days the combatants will grow nervous as their interaccins squabbles are aired before millions of fascinated television viewers. Someone, perhaps General (and former President) Eisenhowever, may say "William Scranton" (say it soft and it's almost like praying). The sounds of battle will cease. Knives will be cleaned and resheathed. Men of good will, weary now, will link arms in brotherhood and the faithful will chorus "William Scranton." Then they will cry together "Mark Hatfield," and the only man ever to campaign for the vice-presidential nomination for nine years will assume second place on the ticket...
...with her feet. And one of the wives is a great big daddy-sized redhead named Jill St. John-a very matey lady with lots of black paint over her eyes. All she does is dance, dance, dance. Wicked Jill and the other wives cause Dean to have a nervous breakdown. Not that any of them have been sleeping in his bed; it's just that he is engaged to marry Elizabeth Montgomery and worries that she too might turn out to be a Daddy Bear baiter...
...Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
...capital city of Riyadh, took refuge inside the seven-mile circumference of Naziriyah Palace compound and ordered his Royal Guard to cover all approaches. At night the 6,000 wall lights on the palace glared brightly to avoid a sneak attack, as the King fired off a nervous demand for assurances that Feisal would not depose...
...month after nervous month, Elizabeth Taylor kept Eddie Fisher at arm's length as a kind of singing duck. It would never do to dump him, not while Richard Burton was still resisting. If Taylor had divorced Fisher and Burton had gone back to Sybil, Taylor would have lost ten-tenths of her pretty face. But if the affair had collapsed while both were still married, then it would have been just another office romance...