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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorce his second wife, Danish-born Cinemactress Annette Stroyberg, because she is spending all her time with Sacha Distel, the same guitar-strumming troubadour who once paid court to Vadim's first wife, Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot. But that wasn't all: BB's current marriage to nervous Cinemactor Jacques Charrier is reported to be on the skids, and BB of late has longed aloud for Vadim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...with six wins and ten losses. He was leading the league in strikeouts, with 170-and, of course, in walks, with 162. Manager DeMars was almost hopeful. Said DeMars: "If I could sit in a chair behind the pitcher's mound and just tell him not to get nervous, he'd be a major leaguer right now." As for Steve Dalkowski, he wanted only to live down his own legend. "It's no picnic," he said, "watching every other batter walk to first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wildest Pitcher | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

When Irene was 22, Mike Todd hired her for Star and Garter, fired her before the show was six weeks old. After that, says Irene, "I kinda had a nervous breakdown for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Perils of Irene | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...served enough coffee to keep Rip van Winkle awake and nervous till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Perils of Irene | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...nervous pudding-gelatin dessert

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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