Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Schwable, 45, is now a thin, gaunt, nervous man. He stared from deep-set eyes as he took the stand to explain what had happened to him and how his mind had reacted during his miserable and degrading 14 months at the hands of the Reds. "Perhaps I would have been more fortunate if I had [undergone actual physical torture], because people nowadays seem to understand that better," he said. "This was a torture of a more subtle form...
Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...
After 14 days of listening to the details, the court this week had heard enough and issued its verdict: seizure of Zeezee's assets, worth about $600,000, plus the fortune accumulated by her two brothers. Zeezee, because she was suffering a nervous breakdown and various other ailments, was excused from attending the trial and allowed to sit it out in her Cairo palace. But the court took the palace...
...Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also feared artistic impotency. He once told a friend: "I am getting stale, and nervous of repeating myself. I ought to discover something new ... To remain static is death...
...eyes were like caves in his pale face, and his thin lips and thin fingers often writhed with nervous shyness when he talked. But what Britain's famed Gloomy Dean said was unshy enough to jolt generations of Britons. He approved of divorce, birth control ("We are breeding from the bottom and dying off at the top"), euthanasia, and in certain cases suicide (he thought condemned criminals, for instance, should be allowed to kill themselves as they wished). He disapproved of democracy, cosmetics, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism and revolutionaries (whom he advocated shooting down "like mad dogs...