Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time now, Professor Carl Friedrich has been petitioning his classes to support him in a campaign for a new lectern. At present, the lectern consists of two boxes and a small tilted stand which has a tendency to fall off. Professor Friedrich is not a hyperactive or even overly nervous lecturer--yet the stand on which his notes are placed slips off without much provocation...
...American people are nervous, skeptical and annoyed about our conduct of scientific research and development. The people are not frightened. But they are getting pretty sore...
...read 30 books every I day this year, he might have plowed through all the books published in the U.S. during 1957-an experience more than likely to induce a nervous breakdown. TIME'S chief book critic, Max Gissen, and his four colleagues try to avoid that fate, but they do more than enough reading to know America's literary output as well as a broker knows the market charts. For their pick of 1957, see BOOKS, The Year's Best...
Sticky Stop. Inevitably, the stickiest stop on Kishi's latest junket was Australia. Kishi, forewarned that anti-Japanese feeling is still strong, was nervous and uneasy. His hosts surrounded him with armed bodyguards. "Sacrilege," cried an official of the Returned Servicemen's League at an announcement that the Japanese Premier would lay a wreath at Australia's national war memorial, the Stone of Remembrance, in Canberra. But the league's president rejoined sternly: "We welcome the wreath laying as a respectful salute...
...jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet of "caviar espresso, codfish benedict, vanilla mousse hollandaise," that prompted one hotel guest to remark, aptly: "I think he may be a Martian...