How to pronounce “nerve center” in English

God forbid, herself called up the offices demanding to speak to whoever was in charge about the brilliance and promise of her daughter. Compared with the parents Portia was dealingwith now, Susanna looked like a saint. Portia hauled her bags of folders through the FitzRandolph Gate. Nassau Hall, Princeton University's nerve center--and for a few heady months in1777, home to the infant US government--looked majestic in the failing light with its great preening tigers and fluttering ivy. And behind it, the campus unfurled, stalwart buildings