Word: high-strung
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...liking. In San Antonio, Texas, Republicans enthusiastically welcomed their favorite, and Barry responded with a hard-hitting blast at a Kennedy Administration foreign policy that "stands wall-eyed in Berlin and cross-eyed in Paris and blind in Cuba." The Administration policy, he cried, "responds like a high-strung puppy to any mention of colonialism but shies like a frightened colt from the real problems of development in underdeveloped lands. Such nations are free in name only. And the present response to their problems has been a response in name only...
...High-Strung Huddles. The President summoned half a dozen congressional leaders to the White House, quizzed them anxiously on the outlook for pushing a compulsory-arbitration measure through Congress. The legislators made it plain that they wanted to avoid those brambles, that an arbitration bill would not get through Congress without opposition, and that in any event it would be impossible to rush a bill through before the strike deadline...
Every year, when spring rains start the bluegrass sprouting, some high-strung U.S. race horse suddenly gets the attention usually reserved for movie stars and .400 hitters. Servants cater to his whims, columnists dog his hoofsteps, and genealogists start excavating the deepest roots of his family tree. He has a name-in 1961 it was Carry Back, last year it was Ridan-but to railbirds he is always known simply as Mr. Big: the favorite for the Kentucky Derby...
Wyatt is a high-strung, garrulous fellow who graduated with top honors from Louisville's Jefferson School of Law, at 35 became the youngest mayor in Louisville history, worked as Harry Truman's Federal Housing Administrator, helped found the red-hot liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and served as Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign manager in 1952. He is now Kentucky's lieutenant governor...
...high-strung man, Yamasaki works hard in the suburban Birmingham office of Yamasaki and Associates. Until recently, he his wife, and their children lived in a 130-year American farm house north of Detroit...