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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Giorgio Valerio, son of an Italian steelman and a wealthy white Russian, Edison's rebirth was a proud moment after months of anxiety during the nationalization crisis. His victory gave a lift to the Milan exchange, which has been dormant for months; it also heartened Italy's nervous businessmen, who have been deeply depressed ever since last year's leftist turn in politics. Crowed one Italian industrialist: "They could nationalize electricity, but they couldn't nationalize Valerio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Using His Head | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...Later young Frank confronted the massed reporters with poise, but revealed little, under orders of the FBI. He had been blindfolded for most of his ordeal, kept in the trunks of automobiles for long periods, but he was in good health. "I was scared. I was a little bit nervous, naturally," he said. But so were the kidnapers. "By the way they talked, I think they were even more afraid than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: There's Nothing to Be Sorry For | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Correspondent Gavin Scott, was permitted to visit the dingy mine standing on a barren mountain. He found the men held in two rooms decorated with bright pictures of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. They were treated well enough, they said, but their dynamite-laden female wardens were getting extremely nervous. Both the mother and wife of arrested Union Leader Pimentel were among the guards. Reported Scott: "The women are surly, well armed, impulsive and dangerous. Even if the men wanted to relent and give up the hostages, it would be difficult without the safe return of Escobar and Pimentel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The Captives in the Hills | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Sterile Years. World War I, and the era of nervous money and raging nationalism that followed, brought the end to an expansive time for the Rothschilds. Stringent national tax systems ended their practice of keeping a single set of books, and the various branches drifted apart. Death duties sucked millions from their British fortune, and publicly owned banks grew up everywhere to sap their power. In France, the Rothschilds' railroads were taken over by the government. The German and Italian branches of the family had already died out for lack of male heirs. The tired old Rothschilds conspicuously failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: New Elan in an Old Clan | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Grant Stockdale, 48, Miami real estate broker and early Kennedy-for-President booster, who was appointed ambassador to Ireland in March 1961 in recognition of campaign work and generous party donations, but was forced to resign after serious reverses in the May 1962 stock market slump, after which increasing nervous strain left him unable to cope with the news of the President's assassination; by his own hand (defenestration); in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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