Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcome. But the subject of the London talks was not, strictly speaking, disarmament, but the development of a dueling code. Having discovered that neither side could attack the other (or even defend itself) without incurring self-destruction, both were concerned that no sudden moves or impulsive gestures, misunderstood by nervous opponents, should plunge them together into nuclear oblivion. The proposals were not to lay down weapons but rather to sheathe them...
...filters and other strong magic for hearing music as it really sounds. Recently the hard-core hi-fiers. have been tuning their ears to even newer vibrations-the sounds of stereophonic tape. The record industry, with a fortune invested in disks, is sidling up to stereo tapes with the nervous caution of a man who fears he may be feeding the puppy that will bite him. The industry goes on with the feeding, though, because there is a possibility that the pup will grow up into a big commercial animal...
...after the Premier's arrival, then drove out to Burning Tree, where Ike presented his golfing guest with a personally ordered, matched set of Ben Hogan irons and woods. Inscribed in gold on the leather bag: "To Prime Minister Kishi from President Eisenhower." At the first tee, understandably nervous with his new bag of sticks, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Premier sliced a drive into the rough, was visibly encouraged when Ike shouted "Mo ichido" (in Japanese, take another), responded with a drive of about 150 yards down the middle...
Until warmup time, St. Louis Cardinal Manager Freddy Hutchinson had not dared to tell his 18-year-old kid pitcher that he was going to start against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Max Von McDaniel, duly warmed up, had little cause to get nervous until the sixth inning, when the bases suddenly got full of scampering Dodgers and none were out. But the youngster forced Old Pro Elmer Valo, 36, to bounce back to the box, calmly threw home to start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground...
Beyond Mombasa (Columbia). "The natives," observes one sweat-drenched bwana, "are growing uneasy." Then one of them catches it right in the back-a poisoned dart from a blowgun. He's a goner, of course, as soon as the stuff hits his bloodstream. More nervous mumbling from the natives ("They say this is a bad omen"). Evil forces are clearly trying to prevent Cornel Wilde from rediscovering the uranium mine found by his late brother, poor devil, who was murdered by a steel-clawed Leopard Man. Also barring his way, on his Technicolor plunge into spine-tingling British East...