Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a course might explore, for example, the theory of elementary physical particles or the nervous system and its functions, and would be characterized by a thoroughness which is not generally achieved in existing General Education courses. In particular, the committee recommended that the mathematical level of these courses be raised, since the compact and elegant language of mathematics is the fundamental tool of the most advanced modern sciences and is gradually becoming more and more important in other branches...
...corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South American screen queen (Linda Cristal). But all at once the gravy train is stopped by Cliché No. 6: a service-nervous Nelly of a P.R. officer (King Donovan). The officer gets scared that the corporal, faced with an objective as tempting as the screen queen, will volunteer for Cliché No. 7, an action that is above and beyond the call of duty. And so he proclaims that the corporal...
...shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this apparently does no good: the fourth shot gives antibody levels as high as they can be pushed...
...Once the pipe-smoking, perpetually weary Maigret arrives on the scene, however, the ball-game is clearly over for the murderer. Using most of the slightly illegal police grilling methods, Maigret begins to round up suspects, one of whom, Annie Girardot, turns out to be the wife of a nervous gentleman who puts up a front as a successful young architect...
...accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...