Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round of reminiscences with other survivors was argumentative and well liquored. An acquaintance recalls considerable talk about Communism, and John, visibly annoyed, snorting: "You're all afraid of Communists. I'm afraid of Nazis." Those who saw him then thought that he was short tempered, nervous, almost in a daze. His wife said he was "mentally depressed." At the memorial ceremony in grisly Plötzensee Prison, he seemed haggard beyond his 44 years...
There was no question that in France and Britain such a peace would be hailed with thanksgiving. For France it meant relief; for Britain, it meant tidying up an explosive situation which had been giving the British nothing but nervous jitters...
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, by right of conquest and popular acclaim, last week took the presidency of Guatemala. The temporary junta, of which he was a member and Colonel Elfego Monzon the head, saw no reason to prolong its nervous interregnum and unanimously voted Castillo Armas into office. Then two Monzon supporters resigned, leaving the junta composed of the new provisional President, one of the officers who fought in his rebel army, and Monzon, who stayed on to be the voice of the regular Guatemalan army. Castillo Armas' 2,000 tattered troops planned to muster...
Neurosurgeon Jefferson disposed of some medical fallacies, e.g., falling asleep has nothing to do with changes in synapses*- in the nervous system, or a shortage of blood in the brain, or accumulation of lactic acid. Neither is there, as some used to think, a sleep center in the brain...
...utensils, brush their teeth and even shave. nervous disorders), the new policies will pay 75% of the total expenses up to $10,000 after the patient has put out $200 from his own pocket. Catastrophic Policies will be sold only to groups of 50 or more who are already enrolled in the basic insurance plans. Estimated cost...