Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploding cigar meant for Cuba's Fidel Castro. But harming D'Escoto would not make sense. The Foreign Minister, who often travels abroad to dispense the Sandinista line, is derided even by comrades as "the Flying Nun." He wields no real power within the government, and his overwrought rhetoric sometimes drives away potential supporters. "D'Escoto is the man who loses a friend a day for Nicaragua," said a State Department official. "Why should we eliminate him?" Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "The charges have no merit, and some of the physical evidence is ridiculous...
Like thousands of other overwrought Americans, Ciment got professional help in learning to reduce and manage the stress in his life. At the California Institute for Behavorial Medicine in Beverly Hills, he underwent psychological counseling to change his Type A mindset, began an exercise program and learned to modify his diet. Programs like the one he attended have been booming in recent years. By one estimate, there are now more than 300 stress-management enterprises offering their services to hospitals, clinics and even corporations around the country, up from 120 last September. "Stress management has become a multimillion-dollar...
Jobs, hyper and overwrought from the flush of such success, would occasionally burst into tears at meetings and would have to be cooled out with a slow walk around the parking lot. His personal life was also precarious. He again met the woman with whom he had spent the summer in the mountains, and she became pregnant before they finally broke up anew. The baby, a girl, was born in the summer of 1978, with Jobs denying his fatherhood and refusing to pay child support. A voluntary blood test performed the following year said "the probability of paternity for Jobs...
...Poland, then in New York. Her catastrophic past has given her mercurial moods: giddy with ecstasy at the antics of her lover Nathan (Kevin Kline) and her puppy pursuer Stingo (Peter MacNicol), then darkly ruminative as memory provides her with waking nightmares. Even as sketched by Styron in overwrought prose, Sophie wove a spell over millions of readers...
...exactly what would happen in that war." George B. Kistiakowsky, a retired chemistry professor who helped develop the first atomic bomb, argues that then as now people forced themselves not to think about the horrors of nuclear war, preferring to discuss the threat in theoretical terms. Himself overwrought with concern. Kistiakowsky cancelled his classes at the peak of the crisis...