Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to enjoy all the speculation immensely. He himself disappeared for nearly a month in 1962, only to reappear and have a high old time scotching the rumors about his demise. "If the Americans are puzzled," cried Castro on TV last week, "let them remain puzzled. If they are nervous, let them take a tranquilizer." Che "was allergic" to publicity, he explained, then quickly corrected himself to say "is allergic." If the Americans are so curious, added Castro, "Why don't they take a picture of Che with...
...whom are businessmen) to a specific airline, but they also serve-along with lower fares-to draw the first-time passenger. Eastern Air Lines attributes its remarkable comeback from clouds of red ink to its use of additional passenger services. American now puts out a pamphlet for the nervous, "Tips on Making Your First Air Trip." Since Western began cutting prices three years ago, 5% to 10% of its new passengers have been people who have never flown before. Since the younger generation have grown up with airplanes as a part of their lives and do not have the fears...
...Martin Market." Wall Street has been nervous ever since the Dow-Jones industrial average reached an alltime high of 939.62 a month ago. Many professionals fretted that the market had climbed too high too fast (it jumped more than 400 points in less than three years), and were concerned about the possibility that the U.S. economy was heading for a slowdown in the months ahead. Some experts began to look far afield for excuses for a fall they felt was coming. They were bothered about prospects of a hotter war in Viet Nam, about possible currency devaluation in Britain, about...
Over the years, Swiss bankers have striven to create an image of them selves as the Alps of finance - solid, silent and snowy white. The effort has been successful. To the anonymous sanc tuary of their numbered accounts, the bankers have attracted nervous money from the world's teetering tyrants and the merely discreet rich. Swiss banks yearly draw more than $500 million in foreign capital, earn almost as much as the tourist industry. Lately, how ever, the reputation of the Swiss bank ers has become somewhat tarnished...
...pause. His milieu is comfortable, upper-middle-class Italy. His characters are dead souls, stifled with boredom and loneliness, who wander their existential wasteland groaning under the stylish burdens of too much money, too much leisure, too little heart. The women are shallow, complacent, cruel; the men are feeble, nervous, dependent; all fritter away their lives in a little hectic experiment that the protagonists like to call love. Moravia calls it torture, but he believes it is necessary torture...