Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day the White House was humming with nervous tension. Reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden: "Jordan would pop into Powell's office. They would both dash out, cut through the Roosevelt Room and pop into the President's office. More aides than I have ever seen before stood in the corridors, mingling and watching others run back and forth. Frank Moore slipped into the Oval Office at 9:30. Two of the President's speech-writers huddled in a doorway. 'You tell me what's going on,' said one official as he left the West Wing. 'I haven...
...time the rebel government arrived in Managua last Friday, resistance had evaporated. Hundreds of thousands of cheering Managuans gathered in front of the National Palace to hail the new regime. Secure in victory, they embraced nervous national guardsmen who had been in fear of their lives. "Don't cry, brother," said an elderly guerrilla to a frightened young guardsman; he had threatened to kill himself with a hand grenade if he was not permitted to board an emergency flight out of the country. In the end, he lay down the grenade and fell, sobbing, into his former enemy...
...Nervous tension, man's invention...
...suppressed the Patton soldier slapping incident; Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian and in wartime broke the story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm, had dashed out into the street crying, " The Russians are attacking! & amp;quot...
...began during the first moments of his life. He recalls Swinburne's own statement about having been born "all but dead," and diagnoses brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. Further circumstantial evidence of neuropathology included the poet's small body and outsized head, his tics and excessively nervous temperament. But his talent was not impaired. Neither was his critical acumen, at least when applied to the works of the Marquis de Sade, who was, wrote Swinburne, "like a Hindoo mythologist: he takes bulk and number for greatness... as if a number of pleasures piled one on another made...