Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near the refreshment stands because of Arnie's Army," he says, "so I had my wife make me up a lunch." He wound up winning $59,699 in 1965. Nibbling sandwiches between shots, Al insists, has a tranquilizing effect: "If I don't eat I get nervous, and when I get nervous I make bad decisions." Why peanut butter and jelly? "If you forget and leave them in your golf bag," says Al, "you can still eat them the next day. You can't do that with...
Stock investors are therefore nervous -as witness the fact that even the mutual funds were staying relatively clear of Wall Street. According to second-quarter reports, the mutuals have some $2.3 billion waiting to be invested. This represents about 61% of their assets in cash and marketable securities, the highest ratio since...
...burned the midnight oil as they crammed for university entrance exams. Providing moral support, their parents besieged admissions officers with pleading telegrams, desperately sought out the help of influential friends in politics or government. Doctors suddenly found themselves busy trying to stamp out an epidemic of youthful exhaustion and nervous tension...
...baroque piety, the church in Spain has been torn by shock after shock since police attacked a group of picketing priests in Barcelona last May. Four Catholic publications have defied the hierarchy's wishes by referring to the incident-and three of them were promptly banned by nervous government censors. Last month, after leaders of the 200,000-member Catholic Action approved a resolution calling for separation of church and state, the bishops denounced the statement as being too political in intent, then banned all future meetings of the organization...
Lieut. Colonel James R. Hopkins, 42, of Norman. Okla., a veteran of 47 World War 11 missions, 100 Korean War missions and 60 raids over North Viet Nam, led the Air Force pack into Hanoi and admitted that he was as nervous as "a football player going out to play...