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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nervous People. The nonpermanent members of the Council busied them selves all week trying to get a proposal on paper that might satisfy everyone. In the preamble, where the difficult legal issue is focused, they came up with some vague verbiage that merely reminds all member states that the Charter obliges them to respect the territorial integrity and independence of other members. Even this was too much for the Turks, who want no weakening of their rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. So the delegates went back to work on another compromise version for consideration by the Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Search for Compromise | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...come of it?" He went on to describe how Dwight Moody once told a young Scottish convert to "go do something for the laboring people of Scotland;" the convert went on to found the British Labour Party. Graham sat back in his chair, looking towards the ceiling, his phenomenal nervous enegy no longer so obvious. "These men did evangelists' work, men like John Wesley, and Dwight L. Moody, and William Wilberforce. We've forgotten today how the evangelist is as important as the pastor and the teacher...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Billy Graham | 2/20/1964 | See Source »

...tournament in seven years; the closest he had come was second in the 1961 P.G.A. Seniors. Jimmy did not win at Palm Springs either-but he stubbornly clung to the lead until Tommy Jacobs beat him with a 9-in. putt in a sudden-death playoff. Jacobs is muscular, nervous and 28. Said Demaret: "I'm awfully glad that Tommy could win it. After all, he's almost through, and I've still got years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Money for the Meek | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...that knocked out its navigational equipment as well as the radios. This, and a 45-knot wind from the west, would account for the trespass. But that did not explain why the Russian fighters disregarded time-honored rules for handling airspace violations. Countless such violations occur in the crowded, nervous skies over the border between West and East Germany. Normally the trespasser-U.S. or Russian-is forced to land, answers a day's worth of questions, and is sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: Cold-Blooded Murder | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Paley has a double dose of nervous energy and, expending it, there is nothing he would rather do than flail away at a golf ball. He will often ask four or five couples out for the weekend, taking the men guests with him to the golf course, where he competes tensely and excitedly and clobbers them with his 15 handicap. What do the women do while the men play? Paley pauses, never having considered that. "I don't know what the hell they do do," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. CBS | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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