Word: skittishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first sessions in NATO's new headquarters involved a skittish probing of the basic military and political assumptions on which NATO rests...
...skittish as a newborn calf, Wall Street's bull market last week stumbled hard. Stocks dropped 14.82 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 637.36, well down from the peak of 678.10 in early August. Brokers all gave the same reasons for the market's weakness: tight money, the steel strike and Premier Khrushchev's visit. Many of them also agreed on what the market will do next. Said Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades Partner Samuel L. Stedman: "I expect a good strong rally before the end of the year, because there is money piling...
...only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
Japanese businessmen are slow to hire educated girls for decent positions. A girl college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss as you can manage." Fearing for life and limb, skittish London Transport workers appealed for help to their union, which last week demanded compensation for any railwayman who might be assaulted by indignant passengers...