Word: skittishly
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...LIGHTS ARE LOW and the music spins along. Nick's eyes are set in a determined fog, he is on his way to his ninth beer and suddenly he looks like a stranger. His arm is around the skittish girl...
...having been bombed out of a job. They are a mixture of "good ole boys" with beer bellies bulging over the belts of their double-knit slacks, trim women in stylish pantsuits and fur jackets, and young managers and technicians in three-button, charcoal gray suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat and flex their knees to relieve...
...graced the drawing boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Last week the British House of Commons, reviewing the issue for the 36th...
...film maker, Brooks wants to knock you cockeyed. For a laugh, he will do anything, try anything. He rains gags. After a Brooks bit, audiences can be exhausted; after a Brooks film, there is the lingering feeling of having been pummeled. Brooks is like a young, slightly skittish fighter whose energy compensates for lack of finesse. He hits out wildly, continuously, hoping that a few punches will land. Since comedy audiences usually have their guard down (they want to be entertained and they expect the pile-driving), Brooks generally succeeds. He keeps the pressure turned up high, and the laughs...
Writer Ambrose Bierce once observed that "the gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Yet in today's skittish economic climate, most businessmen can only view with envy the profitable growth of the gaming empire headed by William Fisk Harrah, 63. It includes two glossy Nevada casinos-one in Reno, one in Lake Tahoe-along with two hotels containing 19 food-service areas and 18 cocktail bars. In the fiscal year ended in June, Harrah's Inc. of Reno, one of two gambling operations listed on the New York Stock Exchange...