Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gajdusek believes that slow-acting viruses may be to blame for no fewer than 30 human diseases of the nervous and muscular systems, some rare, some common. In the hope of explaining them -and thus, eventually, of curing or preventing them-he is weaving together all the seemingly disparate threads of disease in mink, sheep and men, and painstakingly amassing information for which earlier virologists would not wait...
Chekhov called The Sea Gull a comedy, but any traces of wit have been pretty well destroyed by Lumet's lumbering technique. The actors perform as if they were all on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Only David Warner as Konstantin and some of the supporting players-notably Harry Andrews, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Radd and Kathleen Widdoes-effectively explore the full dimensions of their roles. Lumet moves his camera incessantly to give the illusion of action, but uses fadeouts to duplicate the curtain falling at the end of an act. He attempts to preserve the tense theatrical effect...
...Oske hardly qualifies as a remnant of the Nazi judiciary that survived the war. His legal education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...
...chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has made a career of jousting with U.S. bankers. Last week he thrust at their Swiss counterparts, whose secret subterranean vaults have long been the world's principal haven for nervous money-accounts whose owners are not anxious to admit ownership. After two days of public hearings, Patman called for legislation making it illegal for Americans to deal with any foreign bank that does not allow inspection of its records by U.S. regulatory agencies...
...second time around a person gets more of a bang," explained Dr. Peter H. Knapp of Boston Medical School, in whose laboratories the study was conducted. "Is it because the smoker has learned to let go," he continued, "or is it that the drug is piling up in the nervous system? If so, it might cause physiological damage...