Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White, still doubt that emotional stress by itself can actually cause heart dis ease, either directly, or indirectly through the nervous system. But he granted that if the heart is already damaged, emotional upsets may put an unbearable strain upon it. There is no question that emotional stress aggra vates high blood pressure and arterial damage, and may, as a result, become an indirect cause of death...
Even though he took over the G.O.P.'s front-running position months ago, Barry Goldwater was still nervous about the sound of footsteps behind him. "God knows," he complained, "I haven't sought this position. I'm still wishing something would happen to get me out of all this. It's all a little frightening...
...London critic rhapsodized-"which would melt the heart of a gun dog." At the moment, she is starring in the London production of Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary, and, as another critic summarized the reaction of all, "the night belongs to Miss Smith-laconic and nervous, superb in comedy, touching in pathos, a gem of an actress, a dish...
...pages of this unsettling book, the reader is imprisoned in the mind of a man who has suffered and is now suffering a total nervous collapse. Anybody who wants to know the identity of that man need only "look at the title page," according to Author Hayden Carruth. Carruth's self-described "novel or autobiography or dissertation" is not neatly scissored to easily discernible patterns; rather, it comes spooling off the mind of the narrator in grea loops and tangles of yarn. But its feeling is all of a piece-and chilling in effect...
Princeton's courtly Physicist Eugene P. Wigner, though his name is not a household word, ranks high among the pioneers who led a nervous world into the age of the atom. In 1939, he was one of the five farsighted scientists* who wrote a letter for Albert Einstein to send to President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power would be generated." He was present at the University of Chicago's secrecy-shrouded squash court under...