Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight engineer with the rank of sergeant in World War II, Wallace still receives an allowance for "nervous disability" from the Veterans Administration; despite constant air travel on his campaigns, he has a phobia about flying. Before going to war, he had received a law degree from the University of Alabama, and in 1946 he won election to the state house of representatives; in 1952 he was elected a state judge. He made his first, unsuccessful, try for the governorship in 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, had taken a harsher line on race, and Wallace learned a lesson. "They...
...cartoon shows to depict cows without udders. Heavy breathing was edited out of TV movies, "suggestive positions" out of wrestling films. Kisses were limited to a few seconds, and terms relating to childbirth were forbidden. Not even a pause was pregnant. Even today, TV censors are still fairly nervous. Not long ago, says Comic Godfrey Cambridge, a National Educational Television censor refused to permit Cambridge to say "homosexual." When he protested, the censor compromised: it was O.K. to say "queer...
...against the dollar, the idea has gradually won strong backing among European bankers. Many worry that the value of their own hefty gold stocks would be lowered if the free-market price should slip below the official price. The larger South Africa's gold pile grows, the more nervous the bankers get, fearful that the great golden overhang might somehow cause the free-market price to collapse. Some see South African sales to the IMF as a clever way to let European countries increase their own gold reserves without violating the March agreements. Such countries would simply swap their...
...treatment of a single disease, even such a common crippler as Parkinson's. He holds with Chemist Linus Pauling (TIME, May 3) that biochemical deficiencies in the brain may masquerade as brain-tissue degeneration. The deficiencies may result from underlying damage to neurons (the electric regulators of the nervous system) or other causes, but either way they produce "electronic breaks," so that nerve impulses do not get through. Dr. Cotzias wants to find more ways of repairing more kinds of electronic breaks...
...come in many forms: a runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean's 11), or a kid with a photographic memory (The League of Gentlemen). At their best, caper movies can be wry little existential parables; at their worst, they are merely two hours of closeups on nervous thieves and unyielding safe dials...