Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespearean canon, "Troilus and Cressida" comes after "Hamlet" and the powerful tragedies and at a time of the moody, enigmatic comedies that are unresolved and express a general distaste for life. There was a time when pedants were convinced that Shakespeare had suffered a nervous breakdown. Romanticists are sure that the Dark Lady of the Sonnets had betrayed him more wantonly than usual, and that, like Jimmy Durante, he was in a mowing mood...
Connecticut: Democrats are nervous about a big independent small-town registration but Governor Abe Ribicoff, a Kennedy pioneer, should lead a Kennedy victory, especially since Catholics make up 47% of the population...
...waved his stubby fist in Macmillan's direction until he was gaveled into silence by Assembly President Boland. As the boss of all the Russians slumped back into his chair, Macmillan remarked: "I should like that to be translated if he wants to say anything." A wave of nervous laughter swept the Assembly, and when Macmillan at last finished, he got more applause than any speaker since the opening of the Assembly session...
Hannington Chite, Cornell's flashy inside, was awarded a penalty kick with half a minute to go. Coach Bruce Munro was too nervous even to watch the attempt, but apparently Chite was even more jittery, for his kick went soaring far above the crossbar...
...with a towel stands by at all times in case Red's stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...