Word: skittishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy tapped Starbird for overall field boss; Starbird in turn selected Ogle to run the scientific end of the show. Since Eniwyetok and Bikini were uncomfortably close to sizable Asiatic populations and technically under the control of the test-skittish United Nations, Kennedy persuaded Prime Minister Macmillan to let the U.S. test at Britain's equatorial Christmas Island, 1,200 miles south of Hawaii...
...starting gate, eight skittish thoroughbreds pawed at the frozen ground and shot steam from flaring nostrils. Cold-numbed jockeys gripped the reins and tensed for the starter's signal. "They're off!" shouted Track Announcer Raymond Haight-but on the first turn, the horses disappeared in a blinding snowstorm. Haight gave up trying to call the race, made a mock appeal to the crowd: "If anybody knows who that horse is that's on top by four lengths, will he please call extension...
...Skittish Now? At least as powerful an influence on the future of the predominantly Protestant ecumenical movement was the admission of the Communist-dominated churches. Many a visitor to the Assembly-and certainly some delegates-thought, from the way the voting went, that there was nothing but joy unconfined over the move. There was no debate on the subject; it had been specifically banned to shush any boat-rockers. There were cheers and applause when the vote was announced (142 for, three opposed, four abstentions), and again when roly-poly, auburn-bearded Archbishop Nikodim, head of the 16-man Russian...
...high places and low, there were misgivings. In the beginning, it had been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring...
...saddle-sore cowpoke would walk half a block to watch a race between thoroughbreds-skittish, no-account critters that can't do anything but run. But for the chunky, docile quarterhorse, the cowboy has the fond attachment of a co-worker and friend. Bred for blazing speed over extremely short (up to 870 yd.) distances, today's racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll...