Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...falling, but it is shifting -from autos to services, from appliances to apparel,'' says Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradise. The housing collapse has hurt markets for furniture, floor coverings, refrigerators and washers. Yet retailers note substantial increases in demand for costly clothes, furs and diamonds, despite a nervous stock market which could be expected to cut sales of luxury goods. Sales of color TV sets will climb from 2,750,000 last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages of tubes, copper and wooden cabinets. Meanwhile...
...didn't have a chance. Harvard's first shot at offense came at its own 6. The Indian line crashed through, hit the nervous sophomore en masse, and caused a fumble which led to Dartmouth's first touchdown...
This came out in the comeback against Dartmouth, in a second half that probably marked Zimmerman's emergence as a top flight quarterback. He was nervous and made some mistakes in the first two quarters; but in the third he settled down and led his team to the victory that has made the Crimson famous...
...conventional explanation DFL-ers gave for jettisoning Rolvaag was his "bad image." The governor unquestionably appears dour, remote, and uninspiring to the public. His face looks terrible on television, and he is a nervous public speaker who mumbles choppy, barely coherent answers when grilled on panel shows...
Lebanon encouraged the influx of nervous money with a Swiss-like bank-secrecy law, low taxes and tariffs, complete absence of monetary controls (a freedom found today only in Lebanon and Canada). Spreading his investments farther than his sources of deposit, Bedas moved heavily into European real estate, began issuing traveler's checks, last year even joined New York's McDonnell & Co. in starting a mutual fund sold in the Middle East, Germany, Switzerland and Latin America. Despite the increasing complexity of Intra's operations, Bedas ran it as a one-man show, scoffed at bankers...