Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hatless, breathless, he rushed to the cable office and signaled the world that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
Rene Leriche: Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg, who has shown how to operate with success on the delicate fibres of the sympathetic nervous system...
Italian Ambassador Signer Mobile Giacomo de Martino, short, fussy, quick and nervous of movement. His chief recreation is confined to long motor rides out of Washington. Wines at the Italian Embassy have long been famed...
...prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
Hastily he wrote to thin, nervous President Chiang Kai-Shek, craftily offering to leave China for a period of years-provided that all members of the "Soong Dynasty" resign from their governmental posts and also go into voluntary exile...