Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HANOVER, N.H., May 14--The Crimson baseball team, whose string of one-run victories has left its followers in varying states of nervous collapse all season, ventured tantalizingly close to the brink of defeat this afternoon, but held on to beat a highly-rated Dartmouth squad...
Never Enough. "Baseball," says Stan, "is a game you can play as long as you still have two things: desire and the ability to concentrate. Concentration comes hardest of all. The effect on the nervous system is cumulative. At the end of every game I'm beat...
...Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, brother of the eighth duke, restored the family dignity, whetted the sword that his greater son would wield. "He was a little man, full of vibrant nervous energy." Lord Randolph feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...
Smith: Right. But let's be sure what we're nervous about. After all, this recession was triggered by attempts to check inflation. The Fed's tight-money policy was right, and then you had that congressional howl about economy. But of course it's too much to expect that you can manipulate the economy with precision...