Word: nervelessness
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...extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's committee counsel, he moves around the room at a dogtrot, speaks like a machine gun. He is relentless with witnesses, scornful of weaknesses, nerveless before criticism, and contemptuous of all Senators on the subcommittee save McCarthy. With good reason, Joe calls Roy Cohn "the most brilliant young fellow I have ever...
...Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
...high command," said the crisp voice from Spa, stating the terms, "expects the government to cooperate with the officer corps in the suppression of Bolshevism and in the maintenance of discipline." Ebert accepted, and out of this uneasy marriage of convenience between frightened Socialists and nerveless Junkers was born that spindly political problem child, the Weimar Republic...
London's Covent Garden exploded with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls...
...with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper, and husky enough (200 Ibs.) for the heavy-duty weight events. He has the steel-spring legs of a sprinter, the back muscles of a pole vaulter and the barrel chest of a distance man. He also has the nerveless self-control to make the most of his natural advantages, and the confidence of a champion who knows that his only real competition is the law of gravity and the pull of time...