Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief threat now, it may turn out that they are spending their money in the wrong place. The open, vulnerable end of that C faces Red China and, if Sino-Soviet relations continue to deteriorate as fast as they have been, Russian military men are bound to grow more nervous at the increasing power of China's nuclear arsenal...
Jeff Grate had four fouls within minutes, so he couldn't do much for the rest of the half. And Royer, who appeared extremely nervous at the outset, never recovered. He blew a couple of easy shots inside and he didn't take his shot when he had it. As a result, Floyd Wilson was effectively working with only...
Gallagher admitted he was "a little scared." In a scrimmage against the Crimson freshmen, the whole team looked somewhat nervous. They all respect B.C.'s power, and they are all way up for the game. After running sprints, Bob Johnson drifted casually away from the team for just a second. Captain Gene Dressler called out, "Tired, Bob?" Johnson hustled right back to the group with a smile...
Charles de Gaulle fussed like a nervous host. He recited to his Cabinet the list of official visitors. He lined the Champs Elysées with hundreds of the visitors' flags, authorized an unprecedented 101-gun salute and ordered up a 70-car motorcade and a 50-man motorcycle escort. He called for a gala performance by the Paris Opéra ballet company, even summoned Opéra Director Georges Auric to ask him to "do it right for us, because they always do it so well themselves...
Came the Deluge. For days preceding the party last week, jets from London, Paris, Rome, Washington, Los Angeles and Garden City, Kans., flew in the guests.* All day before the ball, fashionable East Side hairdressers fought off nervous breakdowns, and the 16 hosts and hostesses who had volunteered to give pre-ball dinners simmered on the verge of hysteria. Capote and Kay Graham had a quiet little "bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward...