Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nervous Type. But the Scranton unions' bullyboy art was at its ugliest in two other cases, one of dynamiting and one of stink-bombing...
...House of Commons to pronounce an epitaph: "All his actions served only to confirm and strengthen my faith in and my admiration for him. The combined effect of overwork, overstrain, and the feeling of renewed persecution on a sensitive mind and a not very robust body produced a nervous collapse." But Pearson refused to send a new official protest to Washington: "There is no point in making an international issue of this...
...principles" of the Zhdanov decree are "immutable." He wound up the congress with a surefire blast at the West. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, he remarked, is housed in an "old, dirty, worm-eaten, leaky building," dependent upon artists from West Germany, Italy and France. Furthermore, "all those insane, nervous 'boogie woogies' and 'rock 'n' roll' are like some kind of wild cavemen's orgies...
...palm of his left hand ("I always wear it that way because the light flashes in my eyes"). In his lightweight, grey, tailor-made suit,* his double teardrop (one white, one red) cravat and his toothiest smile, Teamster Boss Beck was the picture of resplendent confidence. "Are you nervous?" asked a reporter. "Nervous?" barked Beck...
Minutes later, bellied up to a witness table for two days of testimony before the special Senate committee investigating labor racketeering in general-and Dave Beck in particular-tough Teamster Beck began tapping his black shoes in nervous rhythm, and clasping his soft hands tightly in front of him to conceal their trembling. In an opening statement Committee Chairman John McClellan had said enough to set the toughest nerves to twitching: the committee had information indicating that "the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the largest and most powerful union in our country...