Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TORKEL WEIS-FOGH will deliver the third in his series of lectures, "Elastic Materials, Power Economy, and Nervous Control of Flight" in Burr...
This critical balance is controlled by many automatic mechanisms in the heart, kidneys, the nervous system, the adrenal and sex glands. What concerns the surgeon is what happens, either before surgery or because of surgery, when the balance is upset. This results from what Dr. Moore called "erosion of the cell mass," which he translated as shrinking of the body's "engine," its mass of energy-coversion cells, in proportion to the "chassis," the skeleton and other less active tissues...
After experiencing a well-earned nervous breakdown. Leckie is brought round to his bourgeois salvation by the advent of Alison's baby and World War II. Registering for military service, he wondered what to put down as his profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...
...existence of the East German regime and the Oder-Neisse line are facts of life that probably cannot be reversed short of war; as for West German atomic armaments. Adenauer wants them but the U.S. is far from eager to give them. With West Berlin's population already nervous, any change in West Berlin's status or in the size of Western forces there would pose a severe morale problem; but, after all, even the present number of Allied troops in the city (14,000) is not a force that could hold back the Reds-only a symbol...
...hammer lock hold on the country through control of its 15,000-man police force and an army of informers. Strongman Serraj beat and imprisoned thousands of Syrians. So efficient were his spies that garrulous Syrians learned to speak in whispers, developing an ailment known as "Syrian twitch"-a nervous compulsion to glance over their shoulders when talking...