Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 75% of torpedoed seamen have the jitters for a while. Most cure themselves, but many need treatment. Until last autumn, when the War Shipping Administration, aided by the United Seamen's Service, established its homes, many a man sailed again into dangerous waters still suffering from tremor, double vision or sleeplessness. Chronic alcoholics, chronic psychoneurotics are not admitted to the homes. Any other bona fide seaman needing treatment...
...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...
There is plenty of excellent observation in this novel, and a plentiful fear of nonconformity. There is not the slightest tremor of human mystery; there is nothing of the fear of God. Lacking these, human life is deprived of its splendor, law of its dignity, society of its tragicomic stature. So is The Just and the Unjust...
Last week, at the age of 52,* Leo the Lion accepted his latest and biggest job without a tremor...
...George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...