Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumors spread throughout the oil world from Baghdad to Manhattan last week that Iraq, out of pique at Britain, was planning to nationalize its oil industry, worried oilmen instinctively turned their eyes to Rome, as Iraq's likeliest collaborator. There, in a modest Rome office, sits lean and nervous Enrico Mattei, 55, the chief of Italy's state-owned oil and gas monopoly, called E.N.I, (for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi). By shrewdly bargaining with any government that wants to deal in oil, Mattei has made E.N.I, so powerful that Italians dub it "the state within the state...
Exactly how handsome Max Taylor, a onetime Army Chief of Staff and a longtime military rebel, would serve John F. Kennedy was the subject of nervous conversation all over the Pentagon. No one thought for a moment that Taylor would be a yes man, or that he would serve President Kennedy simply as a briefing officer. Suspicious of Kennedy's motives and Taylor's plans, the armed forces have called a truce in their internecine feuds about budgets and missions; they have closed ranks for a possible cold war with the White House. Cracked one Pentagon civilian: "They...
Ciudad Trujillo, six weeks after Dictator Trujillo's assassination, is a far different place than it was under the tyrant who renamed it when he came to power in 1930-or so it seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were...
Almost unknown in the world of scholarship, Gollwitzer was emerging as a man after Neutralist Barth's own heart, whether or not Basel's nervous municipal authorities, who have the final say, decide to swallow their unease. "Gollwitzer," said one Barthian, "is not out to support those who would like to sweeten their political coffee with the sugar of Western Christian culture...
...Soprano Lili Chookasian, 35, a voice teacher from Northwestern University, and Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27. Conductor Thomas Schippers handled Strauss's surging score with such brilliant control that he might even have satisfied the composer's father, who muttered when he heard Salome: "0 God, what nervous music! It is exactly as if one had one's trousers full of May bugs...