Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby and bring it to her in good time; as for bad after-effects to herself, why she was not one of those dieting, pinched-hipped, nervous women who needs a doctor every time she has a twinge. "I'm not going back to the hospital," said Mrs. Rubina Hartman...
...hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court...
...operation on the nervous system, such as Cleveland's Surgeon George Washington Crile advocates, prevented high blood pressure in dogs whose kidney arteries Dr. Goldblatt clamped. Excising the adrenals prevented and cured the high blood pressure. But no adrenalectomized creature, including man, can live more than a few months. So Dr. Goldblatt, with a good explanation for high blood pressure in his notebook, does not know what to do about...
...Book. Nervous readers will find The Years not nearly such heavy going as their knowledge or hearsay of Virginia Woolf might lead them to expect. Unlike some of her other books, The Years is not experimental. It is written ''straight." Superficially, it is the telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length...
...Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host. To the faithful who had not seen him. since the beginning of his illness last December, he looked thin, drawn, old. He blew his nose frequently, once shot a reassuring smile at Dr. Milani who stood nearby, looking nervous. After Mass, Pius XI was carried to the balcony below which, in St. Peter's Square, were jammed 150,000 people. Upon these, in a firm voice which was broadcast to the world, the Pope bestowed a Latin benediction, an apostolic blessing, in which he said to his people...