Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parker, who retired from the University in 1935, continued his work until a few years ago and even published a book in his early eighties. He specialized in the nervous system, and he extensively studied its evolution and how if affected color changes in fish and chameleons...
...while he came home and married an Italian girl. They settled in southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
...business, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city, and the record revealed that Piracci (whose daughter married the mayor's eldest son) had written checks totaling more than $11,000 to the mayor's wife. All this was too much for Mayor Tommy: he had a nervous collapse that hospitalized him for more than four months...
...When I am Nervous...
Halfway through the second and final rehearsal, Munch was obviously rattled. The soloists were giving him trouble and he feared he would not even get to the choral parts. The Koussevitzky self-confidence was missing. Much slowly turned to the orchestra. "You know," he said, "I never get nervous," Then, raising his hands to his head, he added in a loud, quavering voice, "But when I am nervous...