Word: overwrought
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What, then, are social historians to make of the "revolution" that overwrought fashion editors were declaring last week (see MODERN LIVING) after Yves Saint Laurent revealed his fall collection? What mysteries of the Zeitgeist were riding on the mannequins' shoulders? Saint Laurent's muse told him women will now look like czarist imitations of gypsies, booted peasants in $5,000 velvets and taffetas, long-limbed and slightly fantastic creatures. The feminine mystique becomes the feminine muzhik...
...last ten years of his life communicated with his business staff chiefly by memos. He wrote down his instructions in pen on yellow legal pads, and the memos were delivered by his loyal Mormon retainers. His handwriting, though unstylish, was clear, but when he was nervous or overwrought he splattered his memos with word and sentence changes. Most of the missives went to Robert Maheu, his trusted top aide until the two men broke in late 1970. Maheu read the memos and handed them back to the messenger for return to Hughes...
...began to merge. Last March, when Kissinger's Middle East shuttle collapsed just as South Viet Nam and Cambodia began to fall, the Secretary lashed out at Congress for not responding with more arms and money for Southeast Asia. Ford's advisers again warned that Kissinger was overworked and overwrought. But rather than rein in Kissinger, Ford joined him in an unproductive attack on Congress...
...danger," she would say. "I know how to use a gun because I had military training, but if they want you they can surprise you at any time." She also was suffering more and more from a feeling of isolation, and becoming more and more nervous and overwrought...
Evidently, her doctors hope these diversions will help the overwrought Mrs. Perón take her mind off Argentina's deepening problems, which include an astonishing 234% annual inflation rate. The level of political violence is rising too. Since Mrs. Perón took office, right-and left-wing terrorism has claimed more than 900 lives. Last week's toll was four dead, among them the Defense Ministry's chief of intelligence, who was shot to death as he stood in a check-out line in a Buenos Aires grocery store...