Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election were all 327 House of Deputies seats, two-thirds of the 60 Senate's seats, eleven out of 20 state governorships, and many lesser offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers keeping a partisan eye on the counting. Now and then election officials brought in new canvas sacks full of ballots from guarded, iron-barred storerooms...
Throughout the entire film there is not a break in Brando's almost magical lifelikeness. At times the audience feels it is being sucked into a painful situation that it had only intended to observe from a safe distance, and there are moments of sudden, nervous recoil. At several of the most painful points, when Brando makes a gesture almost too natural to be borne, the spectators do not dare to gasp-they giggle. There could be no higher tribute...
...soft-spoken Dr. Martino, 53, is by training not a diplomat or politician but an educator and a distinguished man of medicine. As rector of the University of Messina since 1943, he has made the university one of Italy's best. As a medical man specializing in the nervous system, he has done research and lectured in Berlin, Paris, London and South America, authored 150 publications. The son of a distinguished Sicilian (his father was mayor of Messina for 30 years) and married to a descendant of an old Sicilian noble family, Martino is not the fiery and excitable...
...aggression pacts between Red China and other Asian countries, seemingly a harmless notion. But such pacts would exclude from Asia the protective power of the West, because membership in Nehru's system involved a commitment not to join in other alliances. It would prevent China's more nervous neighbors from joining together in self-protection, leave the Communists free to pick off, one by one, in the classic totalitarian manner, each nonaggressive neighbor...
Swinging down and down to a jolting thud on a field of green alfalfa, Parson Von Norman thought of the 23rd Psalm: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." Pilot Wilson jumped too, and the empty plane crashed. On the ground the men gathered, bruised and nervous. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," someone said. Later, reporters asked the shaken clergymen how they had felt, faced by a moment that often brings even the most hardened sinners to repentance. One of them answered for all. "There was plenty of prayer going on," he said...