Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognized the White Rabbit; it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing...
Later that night, after answering questions until I was very tired and nervous, a Russian official came to me. The German Polizei had gradually vanished and it was the Russians I was dealing with now. They wanted to see what I had in my pockets. I was petrified. They had not searched me until now. I thought about the notes. I absolutely refused to show them anything from my pockets, and told them to release me immediately...
...unusually nervous wives, Chicago's Dr. Walter C. Alvarez offered a prescription: "Learn to live a day at a time, forgetting old unhappinesses and not worrying about the morrow. Go to bed at 9 p.m." For their husbands: "Help in the kitchen at night will do the woman immensely more good than an operation...
Just in case that meanness ever begins to mellow, pro players have coaches such as the Chicago Cardinals' "Jumbo" Joe Stydahar. A mild-mannered, nervous wreck in his spare time, Joe used to be one of the nastiest customers ever to play professional ball. Once, playing tackle for the Chicago Bears, Stydahar walloped an opponent so hard that the man's arm was ripped open. Astonished officials insisted Joe must have bitten his man; they even examined his mouth. It was a waste of time. Joe couldn't have bitten if he wanted to. He had lost...
...small group of Harvard and Radcliffe students arrived at the Opera House one Sunday at noon to rehearse their parts as "supers" in the New York City Opera's Carmen. After bumbling past small groups of half-dressed ballet dancers, they came to the stage, where Mr. Williams, a nervous, dramatic little man, was sipping a scalding cup of coffee and puffing a cigarette. He needed a shave...