Word: skittish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capitalist trade and technology are also welcome, but Viet Nam's leaders aim to develop an economy that matches their military power primarily by their own means. For its skittish Asian neighbors, the tasks Hanoi has set for itself provide some consolation. Winning Southern support and developing the economy are likely to preoccupy Ho's heirs for some years to come...
Judging from his performance as guest host of TV's irreverent, ploddingly skittish variety show, NBC's Saturday Night, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen does not have much future as a comedian. The question some people were asking last week is what sort of future does he have as a presidential press secretary? With good-natured daring, Nessen-a former NBC newsman-appeared in several satiric turns with Gagster Chevy Chase, whose weekly specialty is a lampoon of Ron's accident-prone boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling...
Fonda, uncommonly relaxed, makes a good Skelton, and his frequent screen crony Gates is properly confounding and skittish as Dance. Almost everyone else in the cast (excepting the fetching Margot Kidder) was apparently encouraged to play descending levels of hysteria...
...Nobody feels secure," explained John Carr, acting manager at O'Hare. "We're skittish about everything. We are doing everything we can with our experience and background -but just what are you looking...
...found its investigative capabilities hampered by congressional scrutiny of possible abuses by the CIA and FBI. Forced to be more sensitive to the civil rights of citizens, it pruned its list of potentially violent Americans from 47,000 to the present 38,000. Some agents are said to be skittish of placing a suspect under surveillance, fearing the repercussions of being overzealous. At the same time, however, the Service is now being urged to clamp a tighter aegis over the President. "With criticism coming from both sides," Director Knight asked recently, "how are we to know where to strike...