Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Relations with a minor" is a common, nonpolitical crime that could have subjected the exiled Peron to extradition to Argentina for trial. Moreover, Paraguay, his host, had become increasingly nervous over his presence so near to Argentina. So when old friend Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, invited him to drop in for a visit, Peron decided to move...
Caseworker. In Detroit, police looked for the holdup man who took $8 and a wristwatch from Cab Driver Edward Grzynowicz, wavered, returned the loot plus 50? from his own pocket, explained: "It's for cigarettes and coffee; you look nervous and probably need...
...March 1954 the police raided a Belgian convent school and found Betty, by now a highly "nervous" girl. They missed Anneke by minutes. But they had enough evidence to make arrests, and a new wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...
Many heart men are returning to the field of their earliest successes-surgery. To check hypertension in some cases of nervous origin there is a formidable two-stage operation, sympathectomy: whole series of nerve bundles beside the spine are cut. Increasingly daring surgery is also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit...
Headquarters Casualty. In Sydney, Australia, Marjorie O'Brien demanded ?8 16s, ($20) weekly workman's compensation, charged that she had suffered nervous tension, emotional strain, "aggravation" of high blood pressure while working as a secretary for the Workmen's Compensation Commission...