Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Receiving all of the 100 possible points in the prone and kneeling positions, Murphy became "a little nervous" at the possibility of breaking the record, and missed 11 points in the offhand position...
...four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in Russia, the world has never ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...
Blood-Pressure Gauge. Most obvious, says Dr. Bontzolakis, is anxiety accompanied by nervous tension. This may range from irrational fear, when confronted with something as objective as a photograph, to chronic delirium or schizophrenia. Then he often finds local itching which he attributes to allergic reactions with an emotional basis. Finally and more surprisingly: among Dr. Bontzolakis' patients, the higher the blood pressure, the greater the tendency to abstractionism...
...through by force of arms. Only people who do not take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East Germany, and they are not there to play skittles . . . We advise all those who are trying to rattle their sabers: If you feel nervous, take a cold shower and calm down. Otherwise there is danger to peace...
...brain (lobotomy or leucotomy). This makes many victims better able to tolerate their pain, even though its actual intensity may not be reduced. Greatest danger: an overall dulling of the personality. More radical but also more logical is an attack through the thalamus, part of the central nervous system which relays many pain impulses to the higher perception centers. Biggest drawback: the thalamus, tucked away in the middle of the skull, is hard to get at, and early operations on it often missed the target by a fraction of an inch...