Word: skittish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marline Rayasse last month did bear him a son, Manuel II (they also have a four-year-old daughter). At the baptism, the 36-year-old ex-matador said that the birth of his son "has persuaded me that I must marry." As to the date, however, he was skittish. "If one morning when I get up," he said, "I have mischievous ideas and she feels the same, we will go to the church...
Faye Dunaway, the mother, has the gaunt and skittish look of someone who has not quite fully recovered from a recent famine. Frank Langella, the husband, is constantly petulant, like a male model who has just had his week's bookings canceled. He is, however, supposed to portray an author, and spends some time looking at slides representing various facets of modern architecture. Dunaway apparently does not comprehend the exact nature of his work, for when he seizes her rudely one night and tries to have his way with her on a table top, she spurns him with...
...said that they still practice coitus interruptus, and most of the women prefer the unreliable "rhythm method." Only 9% of the women take the pill, while some 30% of all those polled said that they are opposed to any form of birth control. Many were skittish about answering questions regarding masturbation and homosexuality, and some declined to reply at all. Only 19% of the women admitted to ever having masturbated, as compared with 73% of the men. Homosexuality proved even less popular, on paper at least; only 2% of the women and 6% of the men admitted one or more...
...Chairman T. Vincent Learson, "will never happen." IBM's lawyers accused the Justice Department of attempting to complicate and stall the case further by expanding its complaint beyond the company's domestic operations to include its fast-expanding international business as well. Even investors, after an initially skittish reaction that sent the company's stock tumbling 14 points, rallied behind Wall Street's perennial darling. IBM closed the week at 387, up eight points from its Monday opening...
With outside investors already skittish about the Philippines, Marcos went out of his way to emphasize that his reforms did not pose a threat to foreign capital. That mainly comes from U.S. corporations, who have a $1 billion stake-more than in any other Asian country except Japan-in oil, mining and other industries in the Philippines. In a telegram to Malacanang Palace, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Manila, forgetting its manners as a foreign guest, effusively praised Marcos' program...