Word: fidgeting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...judge, not U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, had become their main adversary. Sometimes sallies flew so fast between judge and lawyers that the jurors swiveled their heads like a gallery at a tennis match. After only two weeks of such exchanges, the jury began to fidget wearily-but Judge Medina had been at it for nine weeks before the jury entered the box. He was growing a little tired, and a little testy...
...plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair, and hope that this one will turn out a little different...
Defending his world's three-cushion championship in New York last week, Hoppe was jerking rather than punching through with his deft cue-and that was all but fatal in this most precise of billiard games. Once before he had battled a similar bugaboo that made him fidget around too long, taking aim. He conquered that by counting softly, "One, two, three," shooting on three. This time, he relied on silent concentration...
...they come to Mackinac? To exchange jokes and cigars in the lobby? They began to wonder. Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall had been on his way almost a week; California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane. Watching the Governors fiddle and fidget, Readers' Digest's Stanley High cracked: "Never have so many come so far to do so little...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...