Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...
...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...
...patient breathe in a fixed rhythm and give him just the same amount of air each time. Now researchers at Nashville's Vanderbilt University report an electronic device which can be hooked up to either type of respirator and lets the patient breathe more naturally-when his own nervous system dictates, and as deeply. It works by electrodes taped to the chest: they pick up electrical nerve impulses intended for the paralyzed breathing muscles, divert them to an electrical amplifier which controls the machine...
...they came: day after day the transoceanic planes brought them-engineers, clergymen, mechanics, bakers, nervous women, bewildered children. Shepherded by welfare groups, volunteers and relatives, they turned to the glittering cities to find promises of the future. "My mouth stands open," said one refugee, in wonderment. Said a young wife: "It is so beautiful. The new life is waiting for us. We are going into a dreamland." "To think," said a father, "that my children can have orange juice and eggs for breakfast. It is just like a paradise here...
...Parkinson signs might be more boon than bane. Using the drug in five to ten times the doses that S.K.F. recommends for office patients, Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman saw plenty of Parkinson's but decided it was a sign that the drug was reaching the nervous system in useful amounts. At New York's Manhattan State Hospital, Dr. Herman Denber had the same experience, concluded that the supposedly undesirable side effects actually are to be sought for in some types of serious mental illness...