Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replied by comparing him to Christopher Columbus. "It has been the lot of the pioneer ever to find on his return from a successful quest that those who remained at home the while were seeking to belittle his discovery," said a Trib editorial. But even the Trib was getting nervous. Jarrell left the office, sent back a messenger with his confession. The belittlers, he admitted, were not the only ones who had stayed at home. He himself had never left shore. "Mr. Jarrell," blushed the Trib, a week after it had trumpeted the hoax, "has been dishonorably dismissed...
With Schlesinger and fellow Critic John Kenneth Galbraith currently on duties remote from advertising, there is another man in Government whom Madison Avenue is becoming nervous about. He is the Federal Trade Commission's aggressive new chairman, Paul Rand Dixon...
...army units were getting stronger by the day. He had worked hard to build a second bastion, the "rearguard capital" of Kipushi, a mining town 25 miles away on the Northern Rhodesian frontier, where machine-gun nests and slit trenches were manned day and night by Katanga's nervous, trigger-happy troops...
Famed for his allergy to photographers (he once doused one with a glass of water), Japan's irascible ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida was stalked by a nervous...
...Hollywood celebrities in distress has been: "Get me Giesler." For whether the charge was rape or murder or merely mental cruelty in a divorce case, Jerry Giesler was the best defense attorney in town. Last week the irreplaceable Giesler died, at 77, leaving behind him a saddened and nervous Hollywood...