Word: skittishness
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...defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs, shellfish, washed down with beer, and a skittish sip of the strange brown beverage (Coca-Cola) brought for the occasion by Magsaysay...
...soprano who can trill for a quarter of a century on the coloratura's high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most coloraturas seek the terra firma of German Lieder (where they can be expected to last indefinitely), Trouper Lily pours out her Caro Nome, her Bell Song from Lakme and other acrobatic items of coloratura literature, and gives more than a dozen opera performances and two dozen concerts a year...
...earliest transistors were skittish and unreliable. Now, says Bell, they are as reliable as conventional vacuum tubes, and much longer-lived. Some types are expected to work continuously for 90,000 hours (ten years). None are on the open market yet, but pilot plant production is under way. Bell is guarded about the cost but engineers are confident that they will prove cheaper than vacuum tubes...
...nurse gamely kept conversation going while I opened and closed my hand around the round object, and the blood drained out. "Few rejects today," she said. "One, though, almost fainted on the bed before I took his blood. Decided I better not take it. Funny how some get skittish. It's all nerves when they keel over...
...After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...