Word: skittishly
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...Hold the Cork." Not until some time after Christmas Day did residents of Manila begin to feel real anxiety. Up to that time bleary-eyed Americans stood in jovial groups around Manila's bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...
Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
...plane started up before we were sitting down. A young lieutenant, settled on the benches running fore & aft on both sides of the glider, checking parachutes, barely got out in time. He lit running as the big 15-man glider, suddenly an amazingly skittish, lightfooted creature, lifted off the runway. To a glider novice the take-off was startling; we were airborne and climbing on the rope while the heavier tow plane was still soaring down the runway, picking up speed for its own takeoff. We climbed rapidly to 700 feet, circled to get into formation...
...Skittish civilians are sweeping hock-shop shelves clean of shotguns, rifles, pistols, revolvers...
Rumors of a United Nations thrust in Africa, before the peak heat comes, flew about in Rome last week like leaves in a skittish wind. Some said the offensive had already started with stepped-up R.A.F. activity over the Libyan deserts. Others reported that Anglo-American naval forces had concentrated "in the neighborhood of Tripoli." No Axis nerves were soothed when the Giornale d'ltalia announced that "the Anglo Saxons have succeeded recently in transporting strong reinforcements to their Egyptian bases...