Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusty one. He took a fatherly interest in the 100 mentally distressed adolescent boys in his care, saw to it that they had weekly jukebox parties, inspired them to learn trades, helped many of them to rehabilitate themselves. Respecting his professional skill, other doctors overlooked his personal quirks: a nervous temper, a streak of arrogance. Many knew but few cared that Robert Soblen was the brother and image of confessed Communist Spy Jack Soble, sentenced in 1957 to seven years in prison. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation did care...
...Federal Reserve Board can suspend the backing indefinately in a real emergency, thereby depriving it of any solid gold status. Yet the reserve provisions leave so little gold left for international settlements-about $6 billion of the nations $18 billion stock- that when the level drops, foreign bankers get nervous and turn their balances in the U.S. into gold, thus speeding up the outflow...
...Burst in the Chest. At 7 o'clock, 200 nervous Colongolese troops arrived and deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with the evident intention of conferring with the Tunisian commanding officer. This was the moment Police inspector N'Gampo chose to shout "Tirez: [Fire]!" A French-speaking Tunisian pulled the trigger of his submachine gun; the burst smashed into the chest of Colonel N'Kokolo, killing him instantly. Both sides...
...mood of most of Kirchner's painting is a feverish foreboding, and it was natural that it should be so. In 1914, after volunteering for the artillery. Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...insight into yet another obscure matter: how nerves are deadened by anesthesia. The discovery that such anesthetics as procaine and the Indian poison curare combine easily with the receptor protein, blocking the biochemical reaction, could lead to better anesthetics and more efficient drugs for treating disorders of the human nervous system. "One of the basic functions of human life is coming closer to being understood," said Dr. Nachmansohn...