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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighborhood of it ever since. His first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields, collected a group of poems as muffed as a snowstorm in midwinter. They were like quiet songs, spoken out of solitude, poems in which A Man Writes to a Part of Himself. Even then, a nervous aura of crisis crept into his work...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Looking In Robert Bly tonight at 8, Emerson 105 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...holds up the plastic cylinder. Now this is because when you're up there you get nervous-see. Got to have your cigarette or something. He rapidly unzips all his pockets-his hands dodge in and out-he pulls out gold tipped matches, speed pills, stuff, herseys...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Children Before Harvard-What? An Afternoon Narrative of a high-flyer | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

...Taylor's central characters perform their own self-analysis. Each is tremendously curious and thoughtful about what and why something is happening to him and why he reacts as he does. The reader experiences with him every nervous blush, sweat, grope, and moment of insight...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Along the Border More Than Mere Memory | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...promised. Actually, the fundamental strategic importance of Berlin is much greater, and the U.S. commitment there is a much older one. Nevertheless it was to defend Viet Nam that the U.S. went to war, and if it "bugs out" there, a lot of Germans?and others?would be understandably nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHAT WITHDRAWAL WOULD REALLY MEAN | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Cool it, it's all going to come together." "Well, it didn't." Kramer admits now. It is tempting to dismiss Stanley Kramer as a big-time film producer with six million dollars to make a movie. But standing in front of us, he looked vulnerable. His answers were nervous and he swept back his close-cut hair as if disorder might betray his appearance. His favorite film this year was "If," he said, because it destroyed his false sense of values. He was brought up believing that "men were made on the playing fields of Eton...

Author: By Steven W. Bussard, | Title: The Moviegoer The Secret of Santa Vittoria | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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