Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creation of a new specialized class in baseball brings the question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey...
...motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...
...shooting followed several weeks of reciprocal hazing by students of Birmingham-Southern College and Howard College,* football rivals. The Howard killer was working in a drugstore when in strode his friend from Birmingham-Southern with threats of head-shaving. Nervous, terrified, the student drug clerk picked up a revolver, fired. Days later the drug clerk fainted at his friend's funeral, which was attended by students of both colleges prior to their big football game. Howard...
...Orville Wright, at Kitty Hawk,* N. C., made the first airplane flight in history. His brother Wilbur who had helped him invent the motor and design the plane, watched him, nervous, confident and inquisitive, from the ground. An undertaker also stood by. Wilbur Wright died in 1912; but Orville Wright has lived...
...into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...