Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always offered in such a way that the female cannot nibble it without bringing her four sensitive antennae in contact with microscopic pores in the male's shell. Through the pores seeps a subtle substance that is absorbed by the female's antennae and affects her central nervous system, raising a wild excitement...
Gluttons & Murderers. "Next to me," he said, "there is always a hell." He was so wretched in the army during World War I that he had a nervous collapse and spent time in a mental hospital. Once released, he found that his whole country seemed insane: wherever he looked, he said, "barbarism prevailed." In bold, sure strokes he drew gluttons, drunks, lechers, murderers. He drew officers, paunchy businessmen, high society women with animal appetites and animal indifference to the suf fering of others. It was a world of sadism and decay hiding behind a facade of monocles and iron crosses...
...overthrowing the Imam: ex-Palace Guard, now President and field marshal, Abdullah Sallal, 42. Last month Sallal flew to Cairo for talks with Nasser, but entered a hospital and was discharged for convalescence only last week. A physician who helped treat Sallal confided that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown. "President Nasser visited him once briefly. We gave him tranquilizers. We brought in Egypt's greatest comedian, Ismayen Yessin, to raise his spirits. We showed him movies. We flew in his wife from Yemen," the doctor related, but added sadly: "His sickness is really political. If we could...
...cables from the monitoring equipment that supplies such information are plugged into a junction box mounted in a pedestal at one end of the operating table.*From there, a cable in the floor carries the information to the central recording rooms that Assistant Director Robert Farrier calls "the central nervous system of the operating wing...
...Nervous Ne Win frequently carries a pistol, and antiaircraft guns stand ready at Government House. Yet, even though opposition to his regime is massive throughout the country, he still has the bulk of the army with him. And, as is his habit when he encounters obstacles, Ne Win changed course slightly. He temporarily rescinded controls on rice to placate farmers, offered to build a new Student Union at the University of Rangoon (he had blown up the old one after a student riot in July 1962), and called a conference of his administrators to "improve and review" all measures enacted...