Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican side, there is little sign of any solid movement to stand against the Democratic attack. The band of liberal Republican Senators who have rallied around Ike before are themselves nervous about his leadership, and have turned to Vice President Nixon for counsel. "In our own self-interest," said one ex-Ikeman, "we've got to convince the electorate that we are more energetic than Eisenhower." New Jersey's Clifford Case has already called for more aid to education than the Administration is expected to propose, and for better defense than it has produced; New York...
...Blakey, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Candido, Sabu on drums; Columbia). Abetted chiefly by some wonderfully complex naked drum accompaniments, Singer Bennett launches his husky, finely pitched voice into an assortment of old favorites, makes them sound as strange and freshly minted as though they were written yesterday. The nervous, shifty-tempoed title song alone makes this one of the most intriguing vocal albums in months...
...Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...
Indonesia's usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government's reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands' vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
...priest who had been imprisoned for four years by the Chinese Communists. But Reporter Reynolds was unable to win staffers' loyalty, and showed open distaste for the way Larry Fanning and business-minded members of the Sun-Times cabinet ran the paper after ailing Publisher Field had a nervous breakdown last year. Managing Editor Reynolds turned down Field's face-saving offer of a job as "national correspondent" last week. He said instead: "I'm young-and I'm available...