Word: skittishly
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...school was dominated by Thomas Eakins. He revolutionized art teaching, insisted that students draw from nature, based his training on the study of the human form, emphasized dissection and anatomy. But when Eakins removed a male model's loincloth before the women's class, a contingent of skittish females indignantly complained to the directors. Eakins insisted that either loincloths or he must go. When the academy's officials turned down his ultimatum, Eakins resigned...
...proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
Exercise boys hunched over the withers or, if they trusted the animals beneath them, stood high in the stirrups. A Cuban jockey sped by, crooning to his horse in Spanish. A steeplechase jock eased past on a chestnut jumper. A skittish, short-backed filly began to act up, slogging at the bit and trying to turn back up the track. Her jockey cursed: "You crummy pig. You're going back to the bull rings...
Blonde Martine Carol, ex-wife of U.S. Actor Stephen Crane and France's No. 1 pin-up girl, has no hesitation about climbing in & out of her filmy clothes for the greater glory of Technicolor. Playing the skittish wife of a Napoleonic general occupying a northern Italian town in Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie, busty Martine bounces about in a low-cut bodice, splashes nudely in a shell-shaped bathtub, flits from moonlit gardens to candlelit bedrooms in a minimum of ninon...
...Over. From the first day, Steinkraus was a show stopper; he won both opening international events, afternoon and evening, thus doubling the number of winners the whole U.S. team scored a year ago. Riding the skittish, younger (9) Hollandia, a horse that, Steinkraus says, "always thinks he's in the third race at Belmont," Billy slipped to a third place in the next event. Back on old reliable Democrat the next day, and traveling the course faultlessly, Steinkraus led the U.S. to a leg on the team title...