Word: adrenaline
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...terse phrases scratched out on the page belies the first impression: the hand of a man in power has penned these notes, judging from their contents. "One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile!" reads the first line, setting the tenor for the next eight phrases. The author's adrenalin flowing fast now, the notes cease to even resemble coherent sentences: "not concerned risks involved," "$10,000,000 available, more if necessary," "full-time job--best men we have." And then suddenly, out of the blue, four chilling words shoot out of the page: "make the economy scream...
Meanwhile, as Restic termed it, Harvard's cast of characters tightened up during the 25 minute wait. "We left the field feeling 'up,' but the guys seemed to waste adrenalin and lose that extra edge...
...point was brought home forcefully to me one week and two days before the primary. Already burnt out and functioning on the campaign adrenalin which had replaced sleep and exercise sometime in early November, I left work at 10:00 on a Saturday night and drifted over to a party for the Harvard squash team in one of the River Houses. Once there, surrounded by non-politicos and unable to remember the last time I had set racquet to ball, I ran into that phenomenon so common to political people who wander outside of the fold; I had nothing...
...when it asked him to "come aboard ship" in 1969 he floated his Triangle stock, putting some in a blind trust, and went north to Washington. He says he thought trying to effect efficient management in HEW would "turn me on, make my adrenalin flow." And when he was called to the White House, well, "they hadn't seen guys with my kind of stripe before," he says...
...superiors, remarked, "You can bet a lot of that money will end up in villas, vacation homes and Swiss bank accounts in the names of Italian politicians." As should have been apparent to the State Department by now, aiding anti-Communists in this manner is like pumping adrenalin into a dead corpse...