Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul R. Chernoff, visiting lecturer on animal immunology at the Medical School, explained that rabies is a viruscaused disease of the nervous system that can be transmitted among numerous species including humans. The only known cure is the one Pasteur devised: a long series of injections that must be begun immediately following a suspicious bite...
...been shunted to another job in the department, and denied access to the Estes files, because he knew too much about the case. Hales's transfer led to one of the unseemliest scenes ever enacted in the somber corridors of the Agriculture Department. Miss Mary Jones, a nervous spinster of 51, who had been Hales's secretary for eleven years, was upset about the prospect of being transferred to a new boss. After being out sick for two days, she came back and went to Hales's old office to get her leave record signed. What happened...
...prisoner's voice, nervous at first, rose in a piercing accusation that stunned Belgrade's District Court. Shouted Milovan Djilas: "This trial is all propaganda...
Kenya's present woes will fade if African leaders succeed in convincing the nervous whites that land ownership rights will be protected after Kenya gets independence (probably by 1964). But black hotheads on the fringes keep muttering, "Throw the whites out," and African politicos spend far too much time bickering or jockeying for power. It will be some time before the growing black middle class develops a sense of responsibility, as the head of the Kenya African Chamber of Commerce and Industry admits. In an angry letter chiding his members for misusing government loans and grants, he wrote...
...sassy, he played croquet, guzzled fruit juice at a cocktail party thrown by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon (whom he irreverently called "Your Gryce" in a broad Cockney accent), stayed up twisting at a country dancehall until 2 a.m. On race morning, while other drivers, taut and nervous, brooded over seltzer and coffee, he happily downed a huge breakfast, described the novel furnishings he was planning for his bachelor digs in London: a heated toilet seat and a 300-lb. silver coffee table made from melted-down trophy cups ("What else can you do with silver? Fill teeth...