Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus attorneys seemed hardly to care what happened to the motions. Within minutes after young, nervous Faubus Lawyer Kay Matthews began a rambling argument for the disqualification motion, Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly...
...With a nervous eye on Moscow (whose press gave the meeting minimal coverage), the two "nationalist Communists" said nothing aloud to offend the Russians. Gomulka was careful to pay thanks to "the heroic Soviet army" for Poland's liberation from the Nazis, and to make regular reference to "the solidarity of international socialist forces." Yet the fact of their meeting was evidence of more cracks in the once monolithic unity of Kremlin Communism...
...building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared into Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, harangued his followers to drive school-board members to "nervous breakdowns, heart attacks and suicide...
...having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money ($200) to buy water for his cattle. From there on, it is hard to tell whether the moviemakers intended to parallel or to parody High Noon. The camera keeps a nervous clock watch as the alive-or-deadline approaches-in this case, the arrival of the 3:10 to Yuma. And the sound track keeps suggesting, with the insidious plucking of a panicky guitar, that the moviegoer's heartbeat should be getting faster and faster. Too bad-because Actor Heflin gives...
Before the trial opened, Girard's Army defense counsel said: "The boy is getting skinny. This thing is so hard on him that he has become a nervous wreck." Fresh from a visit with the defendant, the American Legion's Observer Alvin M. Owsley burbled: "There is something sweet about this youth. He does not stand alone. He is part of America...