Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunbathed Neutrals. The Dulles decision won hearty approval in Congress, where cotton-state legislators are nervous about cotton-growing Egypt and where Zionist spokesmen have held Nasser to be the Middle East's archvillain. The Sen ate Appropriations Committee earlier had been so bold as to "order" Dulles not to make the Aswan loan from Mutual Security funds. Dulles firmly resisted such an unconstitutional demand. But the whole argument became academic when Dulles decided, for foreign policy reasons...
...Szombathely, the six sat silent, warily scrutinizing their fellow passengers and keeping a watchful eye on one of their number, a former air-force lieutenant named Gyorgy Polyak, who carried not only a wrench but a revolver (which did not work). The silence was broken only by the nervous chattering of the wife of one of the young freedom seekers, who could not for the life of her understand why she was being dragged off on an expensive flight to such a dull spot as Szombathely...
...Days. He flung his skinny frame into the heavily padded king's role so frantically that once during rehearsals he had to be hospitalized. An X ray showed his stomach clenched into fist-size; Harrison claims the hospital is still displaying the plates as an example of what nervous tension...
...command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really a country man in the hearty sense," he admits. He has a nervous habit of stroking his long nose, shooting his cuffs by stretching out his arms, and then running his hand down the length of his tie. "You haven't lived," observed a friend who visited the Harrisons in Portofino, "until you've seen Rexy go through that routine...
...must help such a man reconcile himself to retirement and prepare for it. Suppose you have a patient of 63. You know he has a one-track mind, and in two years he'll face the bugbear of retirement. Do you wait until he's had his nervous breakdown after retirement, or do you start preparing him for it? Classical medicine would wait; constructive medicine would...