Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard enough to lose a bad husband," said Marina. "I wonder how it is to lose a good one." As the assassination anniversary rushed at her last week, Marina Oswald became increasingly tense and morose. At week's end she checked into a hospital. The cause: nervous exhaustion...
...PUMPKIN EATER. Anne Bancroft portrays with dazzling perception a well-kept British matron who endures three husbands, a swarm of children, and a nervous collapse before she realizes that all's not well in her pumpkin shell...
Washington sometimes seems nervous at the thought of a too independent Japan, which is bound to the U.S. in a protective-but also restrictive-mutual security treaty that runs through 1970. Actually, given the present dangerous unbalance in the Far East, nothing could be more advantageous to the U.S. than a strong Japan resuming its natural place as the economic and political leader of Asia...
Simon will leave the actual running of the steel firm to others, but his takeover at Wheeling-where he owns only 8.8% of the stock-was certainly enough to make a few other people nervous. Among them: Leonard Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, which a few months back turned down a bid from Stockholder Simon (controlling more than 200,000 shares) to become a board member, and Roy W. Moore Jr., president of Canada Dry, which let Simon onto its board in August after first rebuffing his bid. Simon owns a 23% interest in Canada...
...time when the facade of "civil-ization"--the protective gloss which disguises man's nature--was blasted into pieces of human flesh by World War I. Beckmann suffered through the war, on the front as a hospital corpsman, and later in a hospital for two years, recovering from a nervous collapse. For Beckmann, the war was a rehearsal for the Apocalypse. In the torn bodies he carted away from the battlefront, he personally witnessed the horror and agony which announced not only the end of the nineteenth century but also the breakdown of Western Christendom. Thirty-four years later, suffering...