Word: skittishly
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Pingpong. Some, like France's Evelyne Flauw, who fled the stage sobbing and gulping tranquilizers, cracked under the pressure. The skittish Americans turned in credibly flashy but often expressionless performances, were faulted for losing control of their pyrotechnical bursts. Results: the disciplined Russians placed first, second and seventh; the Americans fourth, fifth, sixth and eleventh...
...first, the photographer found the stylists a bit skittish: "They kept covering up next year's models, hiding this bumper or that deck-line." In the end, however, Bailey realized that "it was the first time anyone with a camera had been in so many areas of styling and had taken so many pictures. Each time I went back, I found I could go a little bit farther than the previous time." Now he feels that no new car will surprise him until 1967-"anything earlier...
...reason was that Nelson Rockefeller was getting skittish about Lodge's presidential potential, particularly in view of recent polls indicating that more than 30% of New Hampshire's voters may write in either Lodge's name or that of Richard Nixon. Rockefeller backers have urged Lodge to disavow, in no uncertain terms, any New Hampshire hopes. Last week one Rocky aide was overheard telling the Governor that still another staffer was "calling Cabot once more to tell him he's got two days to put up or shut up." And Rockefeller followed that up with...
...that a commander had fallen and would never ride again. Black Jack, a 16-year-old dark chestnut gelding, is the pride of Fort Myer's stable of 27 ceremonial horses, and has performed in dozens of military funerals over the past ten years. Now the animal was skittish, prancing sideways and endlessly tugging at the arm of the Army private...
...Paris and Mexico during the filming of The Sun Also Rises some years ago, is also in Puerto Vallarta, since he is now the husband of Deborah Kerr, who is playing a Nantucket spinster in the film. Viertel is understandably wary of Ava, but he is also a little skittish with Director John Huston. He worked on the screenplay of Huston's African Queen and followed up with a novel called White Hunter, Black Heart, which was a thinly disguised, malicious portrait of Huston...