Word: high-strung
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...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...
...sounded strange coming from Schroeder, a high-strung will-to-winner who frequently ate 4 a.m. breakfasts because he couldn't sleep the night before a big match. At 28, he decided he had conquered all the tennis worlds worth conquering. Before he won the British title at Wimbledon two months ago, he thought of turning pro; later he changed his mind, decided to stick to his amateur standing and his year-round job with a California refrigerator company-and relaxed...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
Pinpoints & Planning. A harassed, high-strung veteran of 34 years at City Press, "Gersh" starts his $3O-a-week cubs as "ink monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...
Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London...