Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fail Safe's statement, merely wears out the viewer with its monotonous tension. He uses all the standard melodramatic shots, close-ups of sweating brows and tight lips, prolonged views of radar screens and bug-eyed pilots in oxygen masks. This technique is a device for making the viewer nervous and reinforcing tension in the film. But used too heavily, as it is in Fail Safe, the technique becomes irritating...
...Johnson is a hard taskmaster, and in recent months friends noticed that the pressures seemed to weigh heavily on Jenkins. He grew increasingly nervous, last January was told by his doctor to lighten his load because of dangerously high blood pressure. He ignored the advice, kept working hard for Johnson. And the work always seemed to be piling up. After one lengthy meeting with the President, Jenkins rushed back to his desk, found 43 telephone calls waiting to be answered...
...spent the day at Fortas' home, was nearly out of control. His personal physician, Dr. Charles W. Thompson, summoned there earlier by Clifford and Fortas, concluded that Jenkins was "worn out," had him admitted for an "indefinite" stay at George Washington University Hospital for "high blood pressure and nervous exhaustion...
...moving into a new ten-story building: "Beirut handles capital like the Suez Canal handles ships." Saud & Hussein. Because it is both the cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East and an island of stability in a newly rich but eternally turbulent region, Beirut has become the prudent banker to nervous kings, African smugglers, such huge U.S. oil companies as Aramco, frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt and Iraq-and no fewer than 600 tycoons from booming little Kuwait. Well over half of Beirut's $800 million in deposits comes from abroad...
...brief vignette that presaged what was to come. Dr. James Slater Murphy threw his arms around his lawyer and kissed him on the cheek. Mrs. Nelson ("Happy") Rockefeller, handsome second wife of the Governor of New York, stood in the corridor smoking cigarette after cigarette. "You are nervous!" said a deputy sheriff sympathetically...