Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riyadh, the desert capital of Saudi Arabia, nervous courtiers have become accustomed to keeping one eye out for signs of revolt inspired by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one eye on the latest dispatches from the French Riviera. There, ailing King Saud, 61, is installed in Nice's gleaming Hotel Negresco in 55 rooms on the fifth floor with his veiled wives, concubines, a passel of offspring, courtiers and maids. Last week the rumors were flying along the Côte d'Azur that the dyspeptic Saud was sick unto death...
Growing angry-and a bit nervous-over the popular demonstration, the army officers who run Turkey from behind the scenes locked up one batch of exultant Bayar men who stopped their bus in front of the Ministry of Defense and "made signs against the army," then issued an announcement warning that the "events threaten national unity." At this signal, pro-government demonstrators themselves took to the streets yelling "Bayar, back to your cave," and ransacked Justice Party headquarters. In Istanbul, cops tried to prevent a bloody clash by opening both pontoon bridges across the Golden Horn, thus separating...
...negotiations, serenely confident that what finally emerged would be what he wanted. At 45, Nasser's hair has greyed at the temples, and he has given up tennis for the less demanding sport of swimming. He appears as physically fit as ever and retains his old nervous habits of jiggling his leg while sitting, and of smoking five packs of L. & M.s a day; like most Egyptians, he cannot stand the local brands. He still works twelve and 18 hours at a clip and is still the only man in the government who can be reached at any hour...
...Gaulle's most prominent foe. ex-Premier Georges Bidault, now a ranking S.A.O. chieftain, was as publicly defiant as ever. He could afford to be, for he was now holed up in southern Germany, where, after a nervous brushoff by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he sought political asylum from the state of Bavaria. Bathed in publicity and surrounded by police, he obviously was not doing his resistance organization much concrete good in a distant German villa...
...brief even by Hollywood standards. After a candlelit dinner, they both phoned their happy news to Los Angeles Columnist Harrison Carroll. Came the dawn, and Glenn was on the phone again. "Ridiculous," he snorted. They were "only kidding." Not so Linda. "Glenn proposed," she insisted. "He was so nervous he had three helpings of Wiener schnitzel. I think he should go to a rest camp." Instead, he went out with Rita Hayworth, and Linda's six-word telegram flew at his fickle heels: "Drop dead-and I'm not kidding...