Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 1,200 in Wichita Falls, Texas, but it was perfectly obvious that he did not. As a notorious Northern liberal making his first campaign venture into the Deep South-a two-day tour of Texas and Arkansas-the Democratic vice-presidential candidate at first was as nervous as a spinster at a stag party. He stumbled over his words, mentioned President Kennedy when he meant Lyndon Johnson, seemed thoroughly ill at ease...
...back again. A helicopter is a perverse and difficult craft; a pilot has to use both hands and feet, and even the pros consider them miserable things to handle. "This fellow did a masterly job," said FAA Supervisor Joe Princen. Said Gregory: "I am probably supposed to have been nervous, but I wasn...
Looking toward November, the pollsters are unanimous in showing Lyndon Johnson far ahead of Barry Goldwater. But they are nonetheless nervous, partly because of their primary experiences and partly because they just don't like what they see in their statistics. Explains Dr. Peter Rossi, director of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center: "In an election like this, you have a high proportion of the electorate undecided, a high proportion who are normally Republicans and saying they'll vote for Lyndon Johnson, but when they get into the voting booth, they...
...first came with the completion of her first novel, The Voyage Out, about a love-struck girl who dies of an irrelevant fever. She had "an almost pathological hypersensitivity to criticism, so that she suffered an ever increasingly agonizing nervous apprehension as she got nearer to the end of her book and the throwing of it and of herself to the critics." As the publication date approached, nervous apprehension became plain madness. She raved. She heard voices. She might literally have starved herself to death had Woolf not been with her at the time. "Every meal took an hour...
...reason to feel great - like a man who has taken at least one a day. The industry's 10.6% profit margin last year was the highest in all of U.S. industry, comparing with 4.6% margin for automakers and 7.5% for oil companies. Yet the drugmakers seem to feel nervous, harassed and out of sorts. Reason: along with profit records, they have been hit by increasing controversy, stepped-up Government regulation, a bad public image and a tangle of lawsuits. Last week they got more unfavorable publicity when a federal grand jury indicted Wallace & Tiernan Inc., a small New Jersey...