Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaven, nervous, speaking in halting French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect...
...Still nervous about having rebels in town, the security-conscious Swiss refused to allow Krim to hold regular press conferences, instead set up a closed TV circuit between Krim's heavily guarded villa on the Geneva lakefront and the Maison de la Presse, three miles away, where Krim's image was projected on a huge screen in the main auditorium. First subject on Krim's mind was De Gaulle's unilateral declaration of a cease-fire in Algeria. Instead of welcoming an end to the fighting, Krim denounced it as "blackmail," called it "premature from...
...Eichmann sat grey-faced and haggard through the details. Occasionally, he seemed to have difficulty breathing. His attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, reported that Eichmann has suffered two mild heart attacks during the trial, but the government-appointed doctor says he has only an arrhythmia (an irregular pulse) caused by nervous tension. When he was accused of having beaten to death the Jewish boy, Eichmann furiously scribbled notes to his lawyer; his mouth twitched, and he ran his tongue over his teeth. At times, his facial tics seemed uncontrollable. He has obviously lost weight, and his pale blue eyes show anxiety...
...until 58 years later that children got rudimentary protection-when, during a discussion of a proposed home for dogs, someone thought of setting up a home for neglected children. Wrote a Liverpool banker who was at the meeting: "The whole thing was highly irregular and I felt very nervous, but to my great delight, Mrs. Forrer, the president of the Society for Protection of Animals, said openly, 'I am here for prevention of cruelty, and I can't draw the line at children.' " Even today, it can be safer to thrash a child than an animal...
Next night Eddie's pals, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, threw a party at the hotel. With half of Hollywood in the hall, Fisher sounded nervous. But an overflow audience forgave occasional flatfalls when he sang the second chorus of That Face! to Liz. She sat, hauntingly convalescent and subject to drafts in her well-cleaved evening dress, chatting with her physician, Dr. Rex Kennamer. Listeners were visibly moved; Eddie, who made a million by having the sort of face that middle-aged ladies want to put through college, probably will have no trouble financing a graduate...