Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned his television set to a local news program. The commentator's guest was Richardson Dilworth, whom Louis Sax eyed darkly: such Democrats as Dilworth had kicked Sax off the public payroll. Recalls Sax: "I noticed there seemed to be something wrong with Dilworth. He was awful nervous. He kept rubbing his hands together." Then the camera turned to another guest: Thach Longstreth. Says Louis the Bull: "I soon saw why Dilworth was nervous. He was worried about running against this guy Longstreth. Longstreth had the looks, he had the confidence, he talked well. I told myself, 'This...
...lost face in 1940 and lost its cadres in Indo-China. Patriotism became meaningless during the appeasement days of the '30s, has since been shouted into hollowness by Communists and diehard nationalists. The national economy has been cemented into an immobile Maginot Line for the defense of the nervous and unimaginative: cartels at the top benefit the industrialists, social security and subsidies at the bottom take care of the workman and the farmer...
Janet began the experiment by engaging in conversation with her "victim" and after a week concluded that Dora needed only a little "understanding". She had discovered, among other things, that in high school Dora had had a nervous breakdown because of family problems...
...seen, some of the same vaccine material is tested again, over another week, with fresh kidney tissue. Half a dozen cynom-olgus monkeys get shots (in the arms) ten times as potent as a human child receives. And twelve rhesus monkeys are injected, with the vaccine going into the nervous system-some directly into the brain itself. Even if these monkeys fail to get sick, they must be killed (painlessly by ether) after a month and their nerve tissues are examined minutely...
...neighbors has slowed down considerably. Sturgess' church backed him up by voting to accept Negroes to membership. Last week a call came to Pas tor Sturgess from a couple in Johnson County, Kans. who had been considering moving to Sturgess' part of Kansas City but were frankly nervous about it. "I told them," said Sturgess, "that we have the best neighborhood in the world - that we have created a place where neighbors have gotten together and licked the toughest problem any Americans can face. And the Johnson County people decided to move right...