Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building, under a ceiling blanketed with klieg lights. Calhoun and his bride defied the A.A.U., as Floor Manager Mike Graham threw the cues. The congregation included about 25 tieless stagehands, a bewildered assortment of curiosity seekers, and 3,000,000 enraptured housewives. To the best man, the M.C. muttered: "Nervous or not, you have one grave responsibility. Here are two beautiful Keepsake wedding rings...
Batista's nervous alarm at Smith's tour was a mark of the dictator's slipping strength. Santiago, Cuba's second city, is increasingly rebellious. The day of Ambassador Smith's visit a crowd of 50,000 went to the funeral of a rebel colonel killed by the Santiago police. The colonel's body was clothed in his military uniform and his casket decked with the rebel flag of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Showing their strength, the guerrilleros swept down from their mountain hideout and attacked military posts at Bueycito...
...homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield, treasury and arsenal. The then King of the day, fearful of the Indians...
Suffering Psyche. In thrusting stardom upon her, Hollywood has put Kim under a weight of emotional pressure that few young women are called upon to bear. Before every picture, she works herself up to a nervous, racehorse tension and bursts into anxious tears. During production she worries and glooms to the point of nausea. She throws tantrums on the set and off. Says a writer who knew Kim on the way up: "She's been like a quiz contestant who has won all the money before she's been asked any questions. Then, every time they...
...merely tapped him lightly on the shoulder and said briskly: "Off you go." Goudeket returned from Compiegne detention camp and soon again was "absolutely fit": it was the iron-masked Colette who "suffered more than could be imagined" and was not able to "regain her nervous equilibrium...