Word: skittishness
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...July. She wanted to finish out the school year, but school board officials forced her to begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child and to enable administrators to plan for continuous instruction. Faced with similar suits by LaFleur, another Cleveland teacher...
Holmes shot me a look of concentrated venom. Strange chap, Sherlock, skittish as an undergraduate sometimes...
...hand. Hit! is vehemently anti-dope, condoning the pathology of its hero and his commando blitzkriegs on the dope dealers with the self-righteous pragmatism common to pulp fiction. Anyone who can see beyond this, or below it, will catch a smooth performance by Williams and a funny, skittish performance by Richard Pryor, as one of Williams' recruits. Pryor's humor pierces through his characterization to mock the whole movie with energy and finesse...
...Truffaut took notes on Day for Night for four years, jotting down stories he heard about film making or incidents that had happened in the past on his own sets. One of the many problems that plague the production of Meet Pamela-an insurance company balks at backing a skittish leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence in The Soft Skin...
...fellow Republicans quickly picked up the danger signals. Ford tried to pin things down before they slipped away. Said he: "I think there ought to be a select committee and that we ought to act. He deserves an open, public hearing." But that only made the Democrats more skittish...