He hovers over the players, snaps his wrist at them as if he were fly-casting, kneads the air with jittery hands.
SAN FRANCISCO — When Chase Utley, late on a jittery night, leaped into the air, he realized he had left his feet too early and launched himself from the wrong spot.
The pilots and crew of a flight on state-owned Alliance Air were so jittery in the wee hours of Oct. 4 that they thought their flight had been hijacked, though it later turned out there were no hijackers on board.
The moths have come out, the cicadas are starting to hum -- and the air is filled with the jittery laughter of children.
Seeking to rebuild a jittery public's confidence in the security of air transportation, Ms. Garvey, the F.A.A. administrator, took a commercial flight today from Washington to Kennedy International Airport in New York, and shook every hand in sight.
Mr. Bethune and others said the aid is desperately needed to help sustain airlines while they adjust to new security requirements, get their planes back in the air and try to lure back jittery travelers.
Across a jittery nation, state and local officials, fearing retaliation for American air strikes in Afghanistan, continued putting in place new security measures.
The composer Kohji Setoh, on his laptop, contributed jittery samples and micro-fragments of speech, then long patches of air escaping, followed by a climax of crashing dissonances.
On a recent visit our enthusiastic coach let slip that she's studying psychology and nursing, the perfect qualifications, we felt, for encouraging jittery first-timers to step from a windswept platform into thin air.
