Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Needed. There is only one answer to such a mood: work. The President sent Secretary of State Dean Rusk up Capitol Hill with special congressional briefings on Viet Nam-a performance that provided at least one House Republican with a dry chuckle: "Obviously, there's one more 'nervous Nellie' in Washington after those polls." The Congressmen listened to Rusk's assurances that South Viet Nam's political crisis was easing, but few were wholly convinced. "We may have to make a decision damned soon about whether to pull out of the war," growled South Carolina...
Johnson all but accused those who disagree with him of being unpatriotic. "The road ahead is going to be difficult," he said. "There will be some nervous Nellies and some who will become frustrated and bothered and break ranks under the strain. And some will turn on their leaders, their country and our own fighting...
...Meek." She was hospitalized for physical and nervous exhaustion. Why had Bicycle Bill taken her? One explanation was offered by Psychiatrist John P. Shovlin, superintendent of the state hospital where Hollenbaugh had been confined. Recalling him as a typically "shy, meek" schizophrenic who "was always retreating," Shovlin noted: "These people find it painful to associate with people of their own age. They sometimes seek the companionship of someone much younger...
...quite the same Paar. All work and no play made Jack. Now that he had been retired for a year, the high-tension lines had dropped from his face; he looked younger, fitter, less neurotic-and less in tune with the times. He was obviously nervous and his timing was off. Still, because he was Paar, and because he has not forgotten how to put together a program with flavor, if not taste, the hour had more laughs than a week of canned comedies...
...hinting, I think, at the shifting world in which the police's leads materialize, establish new perpectives, and then, often as not, dissolve. So firmly does Gavras believe in using the camera to express emotion that he will not be stopped by mere logic or physical limitations; to express nervous alertness he even pans when he and a character are sharing a phone booth...