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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West and the world of Islam sometimes resemble two different centuries banging through the night on parallel courses. In full raucous cultural panoply, they keep each other awake. They make each other nervous. At times, as now, they veer together and collide: up and down the processions, threats are exchanged, pack animals and zealots bray, bales of ideological baggage spill onto the road. Embassies get burned, hostages taken. Songs of revenge rise in the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...nervous hoopsters played sloppy ball but had moderate success with a new offensive play designed to move the point guard inside for closer shots. Freshman guards Frenesa Hall and Nancy Boutillier made the play work and moved the Crimson within two points of SMU at the half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Grab First Victory | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...edge, rattled money markets and in the process helped send the dollar into a renewed slide while pushing gold back up to more than $400 per oz. In the scramble, banks even wound up suing each other. Lamented one London finance man: "The situation is total confusion." Added a nervous colleague in Frankfurt: "The chaos is complete. You just do not know what to expect next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers Grab the Booty | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...normal erection results from a complex interaction of forces. Mental or physical stimulation sets off a series of nervous reflexes that increase blood flow to the penis. As the blood fills the corpora cavernosa, two rod-shaped bundles of spongy tissue running the length of the organ, the penis expands, becoming hard and erect. But the sexual response is fragile; it can easily be disrupted by emotional or physical problems (some, like an excess of alcohol, temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...ONLY PERFORMANCE that approaches Clemenson's is Grace Shobet's courageous Paulina, and the scenes between Shohet and Clemenson are the best in the play. Shohet outshines Kim Bendheim (Hermione), who is distractingly nervous in the opening scene but rallies to embody virtue, as Shakespeare intended. Bendheim is particularly strong in her trial scene, where Redford's blocking is also at its best--simply but effectively showing the relative virtues of the characters. Hermione stands on a small box above all her accusers; with their backs to the audience...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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