Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drown. Britain's Hyde Park tradition of letting a man say what he pleases has been getting a nervous re-examination because of these incidents, but since nobody can figure out just where to draw the line on limiting freedom of speech, the prevailing view, in the words of London's Evening Standard, is that instead of making a martyr of "this pitiful and eccentric figure," Britons should ignore Mosley and "allow him to drown in his own paranoia." That seems to be the government's intention. At week's end, Home Secretary Henry Brooke declined...
That they concentrate on technique rather than trauma does not mean of hazard, however. They, like the nervous beginners, know that accidents can happen...
...meticulous politeness Sam Newhouse does not quite conceal an oversupply of nervous energy. He characteristically sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...
...says top Japanese Economist Ryokichi Minobe, "is not so much a slowdown of a recession nature, but a forced adjustment back to more normal, healthy rates." All over the world this forced adjustment shows itself in softer demand and sharper competition, in that old profit-price squeeze and nervous stock markets...
...strong, disdainful acting performance which overcame the inherent naivity and the pathetic quality of the role (Sir Harry is, indeed, a literary failure). Nothing can be said in criticism of Joyce Heissenbuttel (who played the part of Kate) except that she was too quick and perhaps slightly nervous. Chris Assini played Lady Sims well; though she was too strong for such a weak role...