Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-standing tradition, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange break into cheers whenever stocks move sharply upward. Last week stocks were again moving upward, but the cheering had a nervous ring. "I'm afraid of this rally," said one Wall Street expert. "It lacks conviction...
...sweeter when the battle has been hard fought, then the New Frontier was set to savor a very sweet victory when its farm bill came to a House vote. The Administration had battled long and hard for the measure. It survived in the Senate last month by the nervous margin of 42 to 38. It got past the House Agriculture Committee by a single vote-18 to 17. Only a fortnight ago, its prospects of passing the House looked so dubious that the Democratic leadership decided to postpone the scheduled showdown so as to give the Administration more time...
Little Summits. The relaxation was achieved through nervous and protracted secret meetings between members of the Secret Army and the Moslem F.L.N. The connecting link in the little "summit'' held in suburban villas and city apartments was liberal Europeans such as Marcel Baujard, mayor of Blida, and Jacques Chevallier, once mayor of Algiers...
...question. "What is work?" Using the physicist's definition,"A force acting through a distance," work done by the heart could be measured in relation to the amount of coal a man shovels, or how much tennis he plays, or how far he walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives. Bright sunlight or a thunderclap may have no effect on the heart; a vital message read in semidarkness or a whisper that...
...always vague about his whereabouts. Finally a woman art critic notified Verkauf that she wanted to do a piece about Verlon for the semiannual Quadrum. "I had a sleepless night," he recalls. "I got up at 2 in the morning, wondering what I would tell her. I was nervous because she was a respected critic and I did not want to get her into trouble. So I told her, I am Verlon...