Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time grows short, Adlai Stevenson may lose some nervous adherents. (Says San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr.: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate, but if I had to decide between a going-Jesse of a Lyndon Johnson and a reluctant Adlai, I'd be for Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
...heavies, recognized favorites for the Grand, found it more difficult to find sparring partners, and several times raced the 'fifties. Too many brushes, however, tend to make a crew nervous and weakens its form, and shortly before the first day of racing Coolidge took his eight up the river for some quiet practice...
...spring. "But I am a great believer in facing facts. Making it legitimate for the prisoners gives you a control over it that you wouldn't have otherwise. It gives them something to do; if they have to walk the yard when they are not working, they get nervous. That's when you start having trouble...
...decade had passed since a crowd of shabbily dressed Communists gathered in Peking's crumbling Imperial Palace to hear Mao proclaim the conquest of China and sound a warning: "Let reactionaries at home and abroad tremble!" Last week it was not the reactionaries but Nikita Khrushchev who seemed nervous. From the moment of his arrival in Peking. Khrushchev had been publicly pressuring his hosts to "do everything possible to preclude war as a means of settling outstanding questions"; five times in as many minutes he had sounded the call for "peaceful coexistence"; in pointed reference to his U.S. trip...
...play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled: "I think this is a sinister conspiracy." Edwards dissolved into a nervous giggle from which neither he nor the program ever quite recovered...