Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking to the faithful, trying to rekindle the old fires. In the midst of a tour last month, he caught pneumonia, died of complications in Long Beach last week, a wispy old-fire breather of 93, unknown or half-forgotten by most Americans. But he was remembered with a nervous twinge by an older generation of politicians, and mourned by 1.000,000 faithful followers in the remaining 2,000 Townsend clubs...
...accept Molotov as Soviet ambassador, some Soviet experts said that Khrushchev was treating his old foe gently just to point up the contrast between Khrushchevian "humanitarianism" and the bad old Stalin days, when politicians usually lost their lives along with their jobs. Others speculated that it made Nikita nervous to have Molotov in a post so near Red China; in the ideological dispute now raging between Russia and China, long-time "hardliner" Molotov would presumably share Peking's view that Khrushchev is dangerously soft on capitalism...
Steam & Soap. In a sensible introduction to The Bedbug and Selected Poetry Editor Patricia Blake recognizes the danger of clinging to any single clue to explain why the poet courted death. Mayakovsky had suffered a nervous breakdown, had been ill with a stubborn grippe, and was always 'deadly bored." In spite of his popularity, he was chronically lonely and in spite of his laureate's standing the shifting Party lines of Soviet literature had left him with a persecution complex. Besides, the latest of his long series of love affairs was going badly. Most important...
...Baltimore and journeyed to New York to attend an emergency meeting. After he straightened things out, Albert Davis Lasker turned to the other conferees and announced: "Gentlemen, I have done all I can for you. Good day, because I must return to Johns Hopkins now and continue my nervous breakdown...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...