Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marines and troops to Lebanon. Last week the U.S. role was far more ambivalent. Washington sent a message to Nasser expressing "grave concern" at continued Egyptian bombing of Saudi Arabia. Instead of marines, the U.S. sent veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker to Saudi Arabia to reassure the understandably nervous Prince Feisal. U.S. policy seems aimed at safeguarding the territorial integrity of Jordan and Saudi Arabia from aggression beyond their borders, not in maintaining the monarchs in power against their own people. In Israel, Premier David Ben-Gurion interrupted a vacation to confer with his defense chiefs...
Sabin vaccine is made from "attenuated" live virus, virus which has been bred from selected strains of weak virus. The question has been raised as to the possibility that the weakened virus might mutate back to its wild, virulent state, regaining its deadly ability to attack the human nervous system. It is this question that forced Sabin to prolong his field tests, but today it seems clear that his strains are genetically stable and therefore safe, as now proven in over 140 million vaccinated persons...
...fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated the armed forces, touching off two bloody marine corps uprisings last year. If the Reds themselves were not strong enough to overthrow Betancourt, they hoped to make Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily...
...king-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Swedish Champ Erik Carlsson, 33, twice winner of the Monte Carlo Rally. Though they have yet to fix the date-"very busy driving"-they firmly denied suggestions they might form a racing duo. Said Pat: ''I'm a nervous passenger...
Andreas Teuber uses quick, nervous gestures and rapid-fire speech to see off the instability of Jerry's mind. He is thoroughly convincing, though his delivery snows under an occasional Albee gem. He and Abbott would be a hard team to beat on any stage...