Word: strung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shigeki Sakimura was one of the submerged, and now forgotten, intellectuals of Japan. As a student he explored the social sciences, brooded over his country's oligarchic economy, dallied with Marxism. At 30, the hardworking, high-strung scholar became a full professor. Two years later, in 1941, his Government sent him to Berlin as Embassy attaché, to study German heavy industry...
...Psychoneurotics are high-strung, nervous people who are not crazy but who cannot face certain difficulties without developing bothersome symptoms such as headaches, tiredness, weakness, tremors, fears, insomnia, depression, obsessions, feelings of guilt...
...notes a number of ways of telling a murder from a suicide. Hanging is almost a sure sign of suicide; murder by hanging is rare. To determine whether a body was strung up after death to simulate suicide, Dr. Snyder looks for small black and blue marks on the neck: if present, they show that blood vessels were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself...
...reminiscent evaluation of his fighting qualities given by his 55-year-old half brother, Walter Childers. Said Brother Walter: "He would never cause no trouble, never would take none. Not very bad about fighting, not pick one and wouldn't scat from one. He's a high-strung, say-nothing fellow...
This week, with a fine collection of staging points for troops, harbors for naval craft and fields for aircraft strung along New Guinea's coast, MacArthur set his bombers at pounding westward, beyond the big island's tip, at the Jap base at Timor. Like other air assaults all the way north to the Kurils, it was only a succession of tentative jabs. But the jabs would be followed, somewhere along the Japs' defensive arc, by a heavy blow. The Pacific was being set for another great assault...