Our immortal men, nerved to a degree of desperation never before equaled, poured forth such a devastating fire, and the artillery joining with its terrible canister, that the two long lines of the foe literally sank into the earth.
In the first 15 years after the second world war, Porton used 2,644 men in nerve gas experiments, at a time when Britain was actively preparing to manufacture massive quantities of nerve gas to counter the Soviet chemical arsenal.
The chutes might catch on propellers, it was thought, and the Air Force didn't want its men losing nerve in a dogfight.
Only to be brought out of supermax confinement when a disgruntled Marine general and his men steal nerve gas and rockets, take over Alcatraz Island, and threaten to kill everybody in San Francisco if the White House doesn't apologize for covering up the deaths of Americans on secret missions.
Del Bosque is a man whose nerve will not break because his team faces the Germans.
One of the regular subjects, a toothless old man with nerve damage so severe that he could not feel the electrodes, is having his left platysma muscle "electrized".
This extreme test of a young man's nerve and character was confirmed when Carter was declared fit and ready for the All Blacks' final game of 2012, during which they have gone 13 games without defeat.
Mr. Bentsen, who had arrived in Texas almost penniless himself in 1917, was impressed with the young man's nerve and initiative and took Mr. Manges under his wing.
Rarely has tennis had such a concentration of elite rivalry, and, with so much to play for on Court Philippe Chatrier on Sunday, Nadal's private estate, the final will be a test of not only the players' tennis pedigree but each man's nerve, stamina and concentration in what Djokovic calls "the ultimate challenge".
But while it was far from convincing, Paul Roos's men held their nerve in the face of the challenge, with Hogan soothing frayed nerves with his fourth goal of the game.
