Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time and again the Nervous Nellies have cried out that we are moving ahead too fast," said 38-year-old Henry Ford II last week. "But with reasonable and sound planning, we can hardly build too fast. Just to keep from losing ground, we've got to move ahead...
...uncles: "We seme to make them nervous and i am not surprised...
Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, yesterday received the 1956 William H. Nichols Medal for his work with drugs used in treating mental and nervous diseases...
Many who are filled with dubiety when they spy another this volume of poetry in bookstore windows will be pleasantly surprised by Adrienne Rich's second book of verse. For Miss Rich is not playing a guessing game or constructing her work of the over-brittle, almost nervous niceties that appeal to a number of modern academic poets. Her poetry combines relaxed craftsmanship with an uncompromising clarity that gives new vigor to themes that are far from...
Three years ago a De Havilland DH-110 jet fighter disintegrated and plunged into a crowd, killing 28, but the crowds last week did not seem nervous when almost untested new airplanes flashed a few feet over their heads. Many of the airplanes were supersonic, but much to the crowd's disappointment, they all kept below the speed of sound. Britain's air officialdom has probably decided that the shock waves stirred up by the latest airplanes are too dangerous even for Britain's gluttons-for-punishment public...