Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan asked him if he was married. After a nervous giggle and a consultation with his counsel. Beck squeaked no and had another giggle...
...that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck and face) burned with red, scaling patches; their tongues and mouths were so inflamed and sensitive that they could hardly eat; they became lethargic and nervous, often to the point where they were sent off to mental hospitals...
...drowned out in a cue mixup by a "special announcer" plugging a Graham book and unctuously imploring viewers to "let us know if Dr. Graham has been a blessing to you." That night Billy went back to his hotel depressed and discouraged. Besides the technical mixup, he had been "nervous and bothered by the camera rolling around in front" of him. "He thought," said a helper, "that he had failed...
Smith began marketing borax in the East with the bland promise that "a thimbleful of borax" kept cream sweet, a borax shampoo cured "nervous headache...
...name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes. As a Pavlovian, Sargant sees...