Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that as of June 30 he will retire from the Met to go back to the directorship of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, the job he held before coming to Manhattan. "I have decided," he told the board, "to ease the heavy administrative burdens which . . . have so taxed my nervous and physical energies." In contrast to the Met, the job in Worcester offers "opportunities of time and leisure for travel abroad, research and the pursuit of my literary interest in congenial and familiar surroundings, amongst old friends," he added, "and I will thus be able to devote the balance...
...Holiness has asked for an egg," said the taut, nervous voice of Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi over the long-distance wire to Bologna. "What am I to do? How shall I tell him he can't have it?" The Pope's new doctor, Antonio Gasbarrini, was delighted. "Tell him he can have not only one egg, but two-and have them flipped with Marsala, if he agrees...
...suit was costly both in money (an estimated $5,000,000 for the defense, including $750,000 in hotel bills alone) and in men: the defense required a battery of 33 lawyers; the Government's key attorney was forced to drop out of the case with a nervous breakdown while he was preparing the case for trial...
Enders points out that the eventual success of the Salk Vaccine will depend upon how well it can build up antibodies within the central nervous system, as well as in the body itself. "We know the vaccine gets into the blood system, but it has not been absolutely demonstrated that it reaches the nervous system." be said...
...Hollywood, dogs are naturally more nervous than dogs in other places. The trouble, says Dr. Stanley Cooper, a busy Hollywood veterinarian, is that movie pets are living under the strain of Cinema-Scope and wide-screen tension. Last week, while waiting for Comic Jerry Lewis' poodle to come out of a coma. Cooper, a kindly, 36-year-old man, explained some of his theories...