Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leaving Tokyo at week's end. the Kennedys had only begun their journey. Ahead lay Formosa, then Hong Kong. The Attorney General would spend six days in Indonesia, where rioting students last week broke the windows of the U.S. embassy. Beyond that was Thailand, whose government is nervous about Communist inroads in nearby Laos and Viet Nam, expects to hear reassuring words from the President's brother. After that would come visits to Rome, Berlin, Bonn. The Hague and Paris-and finally the return to Washington...
...nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody...
...this point Yale moved into a wide open offensive pattern and began to stall. Nervous Harvard players, trying too hard for the ball, made too many mistakes and in short order Yale restored its supremacy. A last ditch effort by Borchard (who had 21 points) and Kelley was in vain...
...America, it nurtured the performer, the listener and the musicologist quite apart from each other. Yet now the boundaries are growing fuzzy: Harvard, whose music department has emphasized musical scholarship, draws many quite talented performers, and one can hardly distinguish the future professional from the amateur. But a nervous touchiness of the performer towards the musicologist raises the question of just what place performance holds in a scholarly institution...
...great planetary conjunction chilled superstitious souls all over the world. For weeks Indian soothsayers had been predicting floods, earthquakes and several other forms of calamity (TIME, Jan. 19). Some of the doomsayers saw only two days of danger; some warned that the world could not relax for five nervous years. In Sikkim, the scheduled marriage of the maharajah's son to New York Post-Debutante Hope Cooke was put off until 1963. The ill-omened year 1962, said the royal astrologers, was no time for a princely wedding...