Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eerie silence descends as each even day draws to a close. Only an occasional nervous laugh betrays the outward calm of the courageous but tense villagers. They know that, come morning, the fickle, deadly torture from the mainland will begin again with rumble of cannon and flash of fire...
...gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion of the perfect life. Her husband, she said, was too "correct, sterile, inert" to supply exaltation of any sort. Other men filled the bill...
Silence. To the Italian League Against Excessive Noise: "Silence is beneficial not only to sanity, nervous equilibrium and intellectual labor, but also helps man to live a life that reaches to the depths and the heights...
Donald B. Lindsley, professor of Psychology at the University of California will explore the relation between the psychology and physiology of the nervous system in the first of this year's William James Lectures...
Surely, however, there is more than altruism involved. Officers of the University have, no doubt, been delayed by traffic and some of them may even have developed mild symptoms of nervous frustration waiting to cross Massachusetts Avenue. But the crush of automobiles around the Yard cannot be the only reason for such a potentially expensive program...