Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous not only because I had just scored my first goal, but also because I felt like I would have to live up to this model for four years," she adds...
...stadium larger than the Crimson had--or will--see all season, complete with cheerleaders, band, and one of the toughest soccer teams in the nation, Harvard was understandably a little nervous at the start...
...junk-bond market to soften during an economic downturn. But they have been taken aback that defaults are rising and junk- bond prices are plunging during a time of relatively stable growth. The implication is that any serious industrial slump could give the junk-bond market a full-fledged nervous breakdown...
Guderian's tanks raced up the coast, seized Boulogne, seized Calais, neared Dunkirk, then were ordered to halt. Guderian protested but was told that it was Hitler's personal order, an important miscalculation that has never been fully explained. "The Fuhrer is terribly nervous," Chief of Staff Franz Halder wrote in his diary. "Frightened by his own success, he is afraid to take any chance and so would rather pull the reins...
...threat of war had reawakened the nightmarish memories of World War I, when tens of thousands of men had been slaughtered in meaningless offensives over a few miles of trenches and barbed wire; and each time the threat of a new war had ended with another few months of nervous peace, bought at the price of another diplomatic victory for Hitler. Yet even now, with the Fuhrer's armies invading a nation that Britain and France were pledged to defend, it seemed hard to believe war was really at hand. Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard recalled that he was planting...