Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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screaming meernies. n. extreme and intolerable terror or nervous hysteria: JITTERS. "about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies...
Hold Intact. For his 14th tour since becoming President (he has stumped 60 of France's 90 departments), De Gaulle tackled the depressed "French desert" of Rouergue, a mountainous land of tiny hillside farms, stone walls, and traditional opposition to Paris. As nervous security guards patrolled overhead in helicopters, De Gaulle climbed off the train at Villefranche-de-Rouergue, lumbered straight into the town square, pumping hands and patting babies...
...greatest wine years of the century. That was the word from Marcel Lugan, director of France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with...
Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...
Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...