Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hier ist Ollenhauer." A few hundred mildly curious villagers heeded the Achtung, listened to Ollenhauer in a chatty little speech about reunification, while nervous border guards watched through field glasses to see if the Communist Volkspolizei across the border thought Ollenhauer, was going to attempt reunification on the spot. Nothing happened: the barriers did not fall. Ollenhauer, jolly and beaming, got back into his Mercedes and resumed his pursuit of an issue, any issue, that would stand up against Konrad Adenauer and the sausages...
...over a bad case of the West Side shakes. Says he: "She got outgeneraled and outfought by Shirley Fry. Forest Hills meant everything to her. She wanted it so much it awed her till it was like living in a pressure cabin. When the day came, she was a nervous wreck, and Fry beat her like a mother beats a child...
...Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental and nervous ailments and all cases of paralysis, unless definitely established as organic in origin. Fewer than ten of some 200 cases a year are considered worthy of further investigation...
...cigarette industry has long fought the battle of the public's health from "Not a cough in a carload," to "Significantly less tars and nicotine than any other filter brand." Last week nervous food men wondered if their time had come. A battle of the ads had started over unsaturated v. saturated fats* and their connection, if any, with the amount of cholesterol in the human bloodstream and the prevalence of heart attacks. Though nutritionists and the American Heart Association itself (see MEDICINE) consider a cause-and-effect relationship between fats and heart disease far from proved, scientific doubts...
...death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal operations because they cut down the activity of muscles around the gut. They facilitate the passing of a tube through the windpipe for artificial respiration. They are useful in some nervous disorders, in controlling convulsions from shock treatments, and have been tried for paralysis resulting from poliomyelitis...