Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their womenfolk walk the cove trails without fear of rape, though perhaps not immune to seduction at early ages, and they don't depend on LSD or pot to send them. You hardly ever hear of an ulcer or a nervous breakdown in the hills. The only air pollution problem is the smell of wood smoke on a frosty day. I don't believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves...
...nervous G.I. should run across a South Vietnamese civilian carrying a copy of the map shown above, he could be forgiven the notion that he had collared a Viet Cong spy. Next to the bomb-burst symbols at each city, the map also has such suspicious and cryptic legends as "50 outlets, 14 trucks, five Americans, 70 Vietnamese." A plan for a coordinated attack on Allied bases? Not at all. The map shows distribution points used by the company that delivers TIME magazine to U.S. forces...
...newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors by nervous, anxious parents...
...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
...IMPORTANT when my father got a nervous breakdown because then my family was split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta...