Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconciliation between France and Germany. Crusty, old (82) Konrad Adenauer, a fellow Roman Catholic who hits it off well with De Gaulle, beamed in delight at De Gaulle's assurances of French solidarity with West Germany in the Berlin crisis. But in London, the British government took nervous note of the politics, and the economics, of the meeting...
...Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza...
...language officer in the Korean war. When the pieces were put together, what emerged was a documented picture of a national drive for power unparalleled in terms of human energy and forced sacrifice-but far less awesome, in terms of results achieved, than Red China's masters (and nervous enemies) proclaim...
...machines, in a generation or so, will become a major weapon in winning the battle for western technological supremacy; whether or not they will someday help equalize the supply of teachers with the demand; certainly that row of ten silent machines in Sever Hall is a harbinger of a nervous and not too brave new world.Pictures courteous of Psychological LaboratoriesThe Self-Instruction Room in Sever Hall. There are ten booths holding the teaching machines, some outfitted with indexing phonographs...
...little fellow, skinny and pale, oblivious to his receding hairline. His chin was receding, too, as were his eyes in little chipmunk pits far in his skull. He was very nervous, and twisted the sheets of very thin blue paper from which he read...