Word: unstrung
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...gaggle of dignitaries are touring Frankfurt when disaster rains down on their good gray heads. "That ceiling was 500 years old," the German ambassador defensively informs a shocked Cabinet back in Washington. The Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...
...part gave him trouble." Coles himself laughs over his memory of a time when the great surgeon William E. Adams paused in mid-operation and announced, "Let us all wait while Dr. Coles does his bow knots." Moreover, Coles could never learn to stick needles into babies without being unstrung by their screams. As a result, his doctor-teachers advised him to go into psychoanalysis to find out whether or not he really wanted to be a doctor. He decided that he did, and eventually chose psychiatry as "the most philosophical of the disciplines...
Heavy indeed, but what to make of it? Nothing at all. Singer's life seems just as queer and unstrung to him in episode 22 as it did in the first. Likely it will stay that way. His father, who has a better grip on things, remarks: "Sometimes I stand back and look at you as though you're a piece of sculpture I'm carving." Singer protests that the carving is finished. His father agrees, perhaps ruefully: "There's a point when it's too late to change the concept. There...
...Surely they glow in the dark. Then comes that boyish face, blond hair and blue eyes, and the big frame, well over 6 feet, lanky with a little pot puffing up from too many gravied luncheons and dinners. But mainly he is arms and legs that might suddenly come unstrung one minute and collapse like an unravelable pretzel. With your eyes closed, the voice might be a Kennedy's-any of them, John or Robert or Edward...
...smaller role in Southeast Asia. Born partly from that realization is a growing awareness among Asian nations of the need to look to their own resources and cultivate independence. Strongly non-Communist countries show symptoms of being able to adjust to Communism without becoming politically subverted or emotionally unstrung. Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, for example, have extended welcome to trade, cultural and tourist delegations from the Soviet Union and other Communist lands in Europe...