Word: paranoidly
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Against these quiet fates, the author sets the civic uproar of Soviet public life, "the elaborate trumpery of our heroic age proudly proceeding across the face of the earth, clanking its medals." It is a time of hysteria, of a paranoid spy mania, and there are rumors that "cancer germs concealed in matches had been infiltrated into the country by a foreign power (you pick your teeth with a match and it's all over with you), or that, under the influence of cosmic rays, women were giving birth to girls (to the detriment of our army...
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter hope that a test-ban treaty will be a "first step" toward disarmament. One of the biggest obstacles to any disarmament agreement with Russia is an almost paranoid Soviet wariness toward Western inspection and control proposals. Eisenhower and Herter think that if a test-ban control system could be negotiated with the Russians, it might be a "breakthrough" on disarmament control problems...
...irresponsible and provocative behavior of the Castro regime in recent days plays directly into the hands of Cuba's enemies in this country . . . As a great power, this nation must be slow to anger and must show great patience, but if the Castro regime continues on its present paranoid course the Cuban people could become the victims of their leaders' mistakes...
...patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives are not left in accessible places on the ward. Collectively, at least, the patients' internal controls are excellent. Adds Dr. Errichetti: "And every member of the staff has had to learn to control his own insecurity and paranoid feelings...
...racial integration in the underworld. The hero (Harry Belafonte, who is also the producer) is a singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because...