Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Smoke. The three refugees were typical. Slight, nervous Arthur Woloski had the number 166773 tattooed on his arm. His parents perished in Nazi gas chambers. His own knowledge of Nazi concentration camps was thorough: it showed in the black gaps in his white teeth, the bayonet wounds and whip marks on his shoulders and ankles...
...Much Time to Lose. Next, Halvard Lange took on his critics in the Storting. At a special session, he told the isolationist nervous-Nellies that Norway alone "is not and cannot be militarily strong enough" either to discourage or fight off an attack by a great power. Whatever Norway decided, she would decide herself; he would bring back to the Storting the detailed conditions for joining the pact...
...girls are typical of Adelheide's population. Nervous, dark-haired Irma was working in a textile mill in the Russian zone when the millowners and technicians suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
Statements & Statements. Life, says the count, is made up of nonverbal facts, each one different from another and each one forever changing. A man's nervous system can never take in all the characteristics of a particular fact: it merely "abstracts" certain parts and reacts to those. After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact. He can then go on to make statements about statements about statements...
...February 1949, am going in to dinner.' " Failure to "date" one's facts, often to the minute, leads to inaccuracy and even mental disorders. (Once a man who, as a child, had been dangled out of a window by an angry nurse came to Korzybski a nervous wreck. When the count convinced him that "20 years ago is not today," he was cured...