Word: squirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairs, teetering, twisting. Their clothes and manners showed that few of them were at ease amid the splendors of Manhattan's swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel. But it was less their surroundings than the fateful decision that each & every one of them was about to make that caused them to squirm nervously...
...TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing Editor William D. Chandler for contempt of court. Crowds that flocked to the hearing to see Republican Pundit Rowell squirm in a witness chair were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true. I am pestered by telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice...
Whether palatable or not for native consumption, it is none the less true that one cannot enjoy the luxury of high tariffs and inflation at home without occasionally experiencing the backwash from their reverberations abroad. Though other countries may squirm under the humiliation of importations from abroad, they at least are in a position to collect when the day of reckoning comes around...
...hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...White-crowned Dr. Peter Ainslie of Baltimore's Christian Temple "would have made a famous cardinal." A stout-hearted warrior for Peace and Church Unity, Virginia-born, he once made a Virginia audience squirm by telling them how, in a Jim Crow car, he asked a Negro woman to sit by him and cried down the other passengers when they sought to have her ousted. ¶ Author Jones asked two Methodists who is their ablest preacher. Both named Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston, Ill., who last spring was hounded as a Communist by a group calling themselves "Paul...