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Word: nervous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content with local self-rule now, with a gradual transition to independence in 1964. His plans collapsed when Joseph Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous Belgian officials sent wives and children off on "holidays"' in nearby Portuguese Angola, Abako's party organ Notre Kongo issued a warning of trouble to come. "The hour of testing has arrived. The aliens will try to install a new regime that will be no change from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

This year the Southeast Asian governments that Red China has been wooing began to grow nervous about Peking's brutal behavior. They were frightened by Tibet, worried by Laos, and depressed by Chinese belligerency on India's northern borders. In their fear of new Red aggression, they viewed the Overseas Chinese as a potential fifth column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother in person; the newlyweds moved into separate apartments, which they occupied for six months. Her husband always slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow. It made her nervous, she admits, but years later she told Playwright Bill Gibson: "I thought all husbands had guns under their pillows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...drug after another. But Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, long has had ambitions to paint a different picture -of an industry that fixes prices too high. Last week, opening an investigation of drugmakers, the Keef got in his broad strokes as soon as nervous industry witnesses settled uncomfortably in their hot seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The Double Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...cast is equally good. As the effeminate killer, Jean Desailly is babyish and hysterical; Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as his wife and mother respectively are just demonic enough to explain his mental condition. In his short role as the gigolo, Gerard Sety is amusing and properly nervous in his frank scene that is the comic high point of the film...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Inspector Maigret | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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