Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returning from his first visit since the war to Japan's northernmost islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. Two hours and one minute after taking off, the Emperor stepped again on terra firma at Tokyo, looking much less nervous than he had before. Crowds of his smiling subjects greeted him with banzais, while news photographers, perched on ladders high above the Emperor's head, told him when to take off and put on his straw skimmer...
...Runyon drove her husband out of the house, and Mr. Runyon drove his wife to drink. None of this did Damon Jr. or his older sister any good. The sister had a nervous breakdown and Damon Jr. became an alcoholic. By 23, he had been through the D.T.s, jails and psycho wards before getting cured via Alcoholics Anonymous. In Father's Footsteps, Damon Jr., now 36 and a Miami newspaperman, gives his version of why Damon Sr. was everything a father should...
...doctor agrees to treat the man every midnight. All at once the analyst does a rushing (or is it Russian?) business at his office. After 278 pages of analytic questions and seductively couched replies from female operators, the poor analyst is almost ready for the crazy wagon himself. Good nervous stuff to wake up a sleepy weekend. New York, incidentally, still stands firm at book...
...Iron-Curtain Christianity. No delegate was more sought after by the press-and more nervous about it-than hand some Bishop John Peter of the Reformed Church of Hungary, a member of Parliament in his Communist satellite country. In a formal address to the assembly, he said that his church was prospering in Hungary under the government-separation of church and state...
...read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...