Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When one works in daytime, it is easy to do your regular work. You have your desk, your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and get very tired and nervous. Then I could not sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This was the way, at night, that I thought...
...This patient's present complaint is diarrhea, nausea, nervous instability and mental depression. He does not suffer from indigestion at the present time . . . has two or three highballs before dinner . . . smokes three or four cigars daily...
When Judge Holtzoff then ordered the trial to begin next week, Thomas' attorney warned that the Congressman had suffered "nervous reaction" just from the doctors' examinations. That, said the judge, seemed perfectly natural under the circumstances...
Pancho Gonzales took his first pro beating without a whimper. In the dressing-room later, he said: "There are no excuses. The light didn't bother me ... I wasn't nervous. I wasn't scared by the crowd. I wasn't thinking about the money either. Kramer held his service and I couldn't get my first ball in, so I lost. That's all, I lost...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...