Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monty saw no loss of confidence in Red China's leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...
...contribution to U.S. defense from a paneled penthouse office overlooking Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Calif. As president of the Northrop Corp., Thomas Victor Jones, 41, heads the crackerjack industrial team that makes the Q-ball, the Datico, the Polaris star-tracker-and the bodies, brains, eyes and nervous systems of scores of other devices to carry men, or the alert instruments of men, off the earth. Many of its competitors are bigger than Northrop (which, with assets of $128 million, ranks seventh in size among the old-line independent airframe companies), and some have more widely publicized products...
...intact, and in this the community has been fortunate, for it was not always clear that a desire to save money would not seriously tamper with them. Indeed, the Corporation originally withheld approval of the building designs because its members found contractors' estimates unexpectedly high. For a short but nervous period, they were confronted with a choice among footing the bill, searching for lower estimates, and altering the architect's plans...
...Bekesy's engineering approach to the car," explains Herbert A. Shaw, Director of Medical Information, "led to having the ear considered as an end organ of the central nervous system, like...
...time looking not at me but around me at the secretary who had stationed herself at the door and seemed to be giving him signals of some sort. When I asked him whether there hadn't been forces other than the Partisans fighting the Nazis, he appeared rather nervous and hurried...