Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such sentiments fly in the face of any 1966 doomsayers (or, in the old Wall Street word, bears) who in their most nervous moments may conjure up images of 1929, when stock values almost overnight plummeted by 50%. To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie. At the time of the Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate...
Second Highest. Nervous at Feisal's maneuvering, Nasser decided that it was time to grab back the initiative. In an angry broadcast three weeks ago, Egypt's leader called for an "indefinite postponement" of the Algiers summit, declaring: "We cannot sit side by side with reactionary elements." That seemed to kill any chance of a summit. Then last week, Feisal announced that Saudi Arabia would not go along with postponement. "More than ever before," said Feisal, "there is dire necessity for Arab summit conferences, in order to unify the Arab effort." Moreover, said Feisal, his country, which...
...Later he may seem to cry-but without tears. He will never revel in the joys of candy; he cannot taste the difference between sweet and sour. When he burns himself, he may not even feel the pain. He is a victim of dysautonomia-an inherited malfunction of the nervous system...
...speculates Geneticist McKusick, a Rhineland Jew was hit in the gonads by either a cosmic ray or a ray from radioactive rock such as granite. By a billion-to-one chance, the ray damaged one of the genes that govern biochemical development in the embryo's nervous system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that became the Pale of Settlement...
...University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Dancis and Dr. Alfred Smith found that dysautonomia had one unique feature: its victims lacked taste buds in the front and, in most cases, in the back of the tongue as well. This defect in taste buds signals defects in other parts of the nervous system...