Word: skittishness
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Dark-eyed Phil and blonde Vinca have been seaside pals on the Brittany coast through all their childhood summers. This summer some nameless tension clouds their carefree camaraderie. On their shrimping and crab-hunting forays, Phil turns broody, Vinca coquettishly skittish. Both erupt in inane little squabbles, shy away from the budding hints of their physical and psychological otherness. By the time they are ready to let the troubling word "love" cross their lips, they decide with childlike gravity that love is for grownups and that they are star-crossed by their years...
Progress in carrying on from the V-2 was agonizingly slow. The missiles that took to the air were inaccurate, skittish...
...governments to channel U.S. aid to Europe. Mindful of objections to Euratom on the grounds that it covers too few countries and carries supranationalism too far, the O.E.E.C. committee proposed cooperation short of full partnership among the 17 O.E.E.C. nations. To include countries such as Brit ain, which is skittish about too deep involvement in continental federation, O.E.E.C. would settle for "joint undertakings" among different combinations of countries to spread their investment risks and to give Europe a more balanced atomic industry than any one nation could build alone. "Full cooperation," said the O.E.E.C. committee would "wreck the very idea...
...bargaining. In a recent case involving California's Richfield Oil Corp., the NLRB ruled that a company-aided stock-buying program was in effect a boost in wages and thus came under collective-bargaining rules. The case is being appealed in the Federal Court, but many businessmen are skittish about starting programs under such conditions...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...