Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist Party officials were scared. From the steps of party headquarters they begged the crowd to disperse, promised to look into their grievances. For a moment the mass of youths moved backward, then surged forward again. Nervous police fired over the heads of the crowd, inadvertently killed some young Russians perched in the dark on trees and utility poles. As their bodies fell to the ground, the rioters exploded with rage. Party headquarters was sacked; officials were beaten to the floor as they frantically telephoned for reinforcements. Fresh militia and secret police units raced to the scene, opened up with...
...time. Brown launched a grim defense of his administration amid nervous pauses to consult notes. Xixon shunned notes and. in his own opener, took gleefully to the attack. The pressure frazzled Brown; he answered a question about welfare payments for unwed mothers by earnestly outlining the plight of "mothers deserted by their fathers...
...advertising becomes more pervasive, so does debate about it. Never before have admen been so concerned about the future of their business or so nervous over charges that Madison Avenue is somehow corrupting the standards of Main Street...
...most cussed and discussed man in advertising by expanding McCann into a maze of separate companies, each designed to offer advertisers a different kind of communications or advertising service. So far, Harper's costly expansion program has left McCann with small profit, but his competitors still keep a nervous eye on the thrusting man who begins each day at his $150,000 Irvington, N.Y. home by simultaneously reading a book and pedaling a few miles on his stationary bicycle...
...addition to the priests, TV's new professional men include a lawyer and a clutch of newsmen. The tough, quick-thinking, steel-trap lawyer is NBC's Sam Benedict, played by Edmond O'Brien with sheer nervous drive, solving ten cases an hour, picking up phones, barking, slamming them down, dictating letters at 200 words a minute, grabbing punks by the throat, and so on. Statistically, a man like that ought to have a nervous breakdown at least once a week...