Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typewriters keep up their nervous tattoo, the telephones go on ringing, the tides of paper flow in and out. Yet the White House-and indeed all of Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences...
...total time away from Harvard would include two summers. "Besides," he added, if I had decided to leave Harvard this spring, I would have gone to New York and devoted time to Hogan's Goat. At east up here I don't have the chance to be nervous...
...reeked with the unmistakable odor of ether-something that had not happened when the cap had only been pierced by a syringe needle. Ether is almost always given by inhalation, and is used intravenously only in the rarest special cases (it inflames the lungs and depresses the heart and nervous system). So how had ether got into the Surital bottle...
Jane Bullock, as Laura, is responsible for much of the success the play managers to attain. In the first scene, she is eating dinner, picking at her food with the nervous movements of a deer. From that moment, her tremulous voice and brittle gestures create the image of a glass girl who is just as fragile as her tiny companions...
...member of the Armed Services Committee that his constituent cases will receive special attention; attempts to persuade a local board member that participation in a March to protest the War in Vietnam is not evidence of a "draft evasion mentality" or reason for induction; and cautiously advises a nervous law school student on his "legal rights"; that's all I can give you under oath, but I'll tell you frankly...