Word: high-strung
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...Walter de la Mare's The Guardian, in which a high-strung boy becomes attached to a ghost who represents death...
...desk all day, relaxed in the Officers' Club, and was married to a general's daughter: Dorothy Krueger Smith, 40, the only daughter of retired General Walter Krueger, World War II commander of the island-hopping Sixth Army. But to Dorothy Smith, brunette and high-strung, the lot of a conscientious soldier's wife was not a happy one. Monotony unnerved her, loneliness oppressed; she sought excitement in alcohol, forgetfulness in dope. The colonel, she believed, regarded his wife as a clinging handicap to his professional career...
...chtung (backward breeding), Geneticist Heck has developed his tarpans and a herd of aurochs, the beefy, bison-like ancestors of modern cattle. Neither strain has any domestic value, but both have shown unusual resistance to disease. "The day may come," said Dr. Heck last week, "when our highly bred, high-strung modern breeds will need a shot of their wild ancestors' blood to revitalize them...
...automatic, unconscious and frequently impulsive act . . . an expression of tenseness, usually found in fidgety, high-strung, overactive children . . . The origin of nail-biting is probably in the instinct of the child to put every object in the mouth...
...shows the 17-year-old, 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton winning from Death-in the moment of suicide-a chance to live again, so long as he keeps his past existence secret. Projected into the 20th century, he becomes the lover of a passionate, high-strung, middle-aged sophisticate. Finally, recalling and recounting his past, he is recalled by Death...