Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four years ago, to get elected, Frondizi in his usual adroit way courted the support of the outlawed Per&243;nistas. In power, he tried to assimilate the Per&243;nistas into the normal political life of the nation in a way that made Argentina's military leaders nervous. This year Frondizi managed to convince the military that the Per&243;nistas would be no threat in the elections, and that now was the time to destroy the Per&243;n myth once and for all by allowing his followers a place on the ballot...
...Here you have the bronchi at the point where they empty into the diatribe," his Old World doctor says by way of telling him he has tuberculosis. He leaves the tuberculosis sanitarium to visit his father, now ensconced in an asylum where the carefree staff has diagnosed him a "Nervous Wreck." Horrified, Don packs his father off to a country rest home where he is amazed to meet his old fiancée. He accepts guilt for her troubled mind, and, in the face of dark signs, he marries...
...color is high, his face almost unlined, his figure trim, his nervous energy controlled. He stays on the go from early morning to early morning, sees an in credible number of people and performs an incredible number of tasks. He listens to his advisers, makes his decisions and sticks by them. Most of all he has learned that the nation's problems cannot be considered in absolute terms; that a part-success is better than nothing, that failure is rarely cataclysmic...
After three years, says Williams, "I guess I willed myself into a nervous breakdown." Recuperating with his grandparents in Memphis that summer, he wrote his first play: Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, about two sailors who pick up a couple of girls. He had never seen a sailor. In the next few years, returning to St. Louis, he churned out scripts about miners (unseen), munitions makers (unseen), prison convicts roasted alive (unseen) and a flophouse (visited). A quasi-bohemian theater group called the Mummers staged them...
...publishing houses have been to respond. An Almat Company wrote, "I would be grateful if would send me a list; as a publisher me nervous to think of any being neglected...