Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England's industrial north, Eddie Chapman enlisted in the Coldstream Guards and was discharged (for overstaying his leave in a brunette's apartment) before he was 19. Two years later he was famous as the leader of the Gelignite Gang, which specialized in blowing safes. "Eddie gets nervous at the thought of anything locked up," said friends proudly. He drove a low-slung car, had a West End flat stocked with a succession of girls, and was well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night in Edinburgh, Eddie was released on bail...
...Germany an urgent cable from husky Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas, 37, who before his screen career had been a wrestler. Kirk, who met Estelle in Europe last summer, begged her not to get engaged to anybody until he returned to the U.S. on Dec. 15. But suddenly Estelle, "too nervous to have a long engagement," crossed up everybody by announcing in Manhattan that some time before Christmas she would marry Dempsey, 54, "a real he-man." Jack allowed that Estelle ("a wonderful girl") would become his fourth wife. Then Estelle let Jack in on a little surprise: she planned...
Three doctors from the University of Virginia's School of Medicine charted the physician's responsibility in the prevention of accidents. It begins, they said, with the detection of disorders of the nervous system which may predispose a patient to highway accidents. Chief among these: an uncontrollable tendency to fall asleep (narcolepsy), both petit-mal and grand-mal epilepsy, brain hemorrhages, mental deficiencies and illnesses, Parkinsonism, the aftereffects of lobotomy, and paralysis of nerve centers which govern muscles...
...drunkenness known as nitrogen narcosis is a factor of diving physiology. The first stage is a mild anesthesia, a gaseous attack on the central nervous system. It destroys the instinct for life...
During the war, the Germans had perfected a gas which destroys an enzyme called cholinesterase, a substance that ordinarily works as a "brake" for the nervous system. Without this controlling agent, the nerves stimulate the body's muscles into convulsive activity. Severe exposure results in paralysis and eventually death...