Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little chance to relax. Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy...
...Austin S. Edwards of the University of Georgia works for a tobacco-growing state, but in the latest Journal of Applied Psychology he reports one effect of tobacco smoking: it increases "finger tremor," an indication of disturbance in the nervous system...
Last week nervous Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher left the dugout and went back to directing his club from the first-base coaching line. He promptly got booed by the Brooklyn fans-those who were still going to games. What fans kept asking each other as they milled out of the exits: will Leo finish out the season on the first-base line? Or even in Brooklyn...
...small, frail man," Mydans wrote. "He is intense, nervous and understanding. He is overwhelmed by the gifts he is receiving from America and wants to do the most he can with the funds. He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
...film has earned great acclaim in Europe. Those who prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...