Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue was not long in doubt. After a few days of nervous consultations, the Mapai central committee voted 149 to 96 to boot Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the powerful labor federation that he had used as his base of power. Happily, Ben-Gurion turned his thoughts to a new Cabinet that would probably include most of the now chas tened politicians who had dared oppose him on Lavon. The outcome represented something less than judicial fairness to Lavon, who may now bolt the party and try to fight Ben-Gurion on the stump...
What was accomplished by Ham's flight? Certainly, Project Mercury had taken a considerable forward step. The monkeys, dogs and other animals previously brought down from space performed no mental tasks; they merely survived. Ham proved that a central nervous system much like the human brain can do a trained-in task under space conditions...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The College Panic," a canvass of harassed admissions directors, nervous parents and students...
Novelist Lanoux, 47, writes in a nervous, jazz-paced style, equally appropriate to bars and Bedlam. His message is that there is not much difference inside or outside the asylum. The dedicated chief psychiatrist at Mariakerke. who plays 400 different roles, one for each of his lunatics, concludes gloomily that "the more care you provide, the more patients you find," and thinks, not unhappily, that "if I were to let go, I'd pass over to the other side...
...count with lima beans"), Brooke bounced back and forth between school and private tutors. After her divorce from Hayward, Margaret Sullavan moved to Connecticut, and Brooke went to a school unused to the Hollywood breed. Within six months after her arrival, Brooke recalls proudly, one teacher had a nervous breakdown. A little later Brooke was expelled from the Girl Scouts. Meanwhile, Mommy married Kenneth Wagg, then a director of Horlick's Malted Milk, and, insists Brooke, "we had nothing but malted milk in our pantry. I was even sent out on my bicycle to peddle the new products...