Word: cramping
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...under the overhead reading lights we looked hearty. We carried our suitcases from station locker to bus with a semblance of ease. No longer did the seats bruise our kneecaps or cramp our muscles, and at times we slept...
They do not find new songs easy to come by. Cursed with writer's cramp early this year, Songwriters Felder and Henley rented a Mulholland Drive mansion, stocked it with tequila and legal pads and agonized for several weeks while waiting for the muse. Finally, after three months, four cross-country trips and $160,000 in production costs, the group was satisfied with the nine songs on One of These Nights...
...cramp in the apocryphal great white's style is, of course, Jaws, the movie of shark menace now terrorizing audiences across the U.S. In its first month, Jaws has grossed an unprecedented $53 million and sent a delicious shiver along the nation's beaches. Formerly bold swimmers now huddle in groups a few yards offshore, bathers stunned with sun hover nervously at water's edge and at the hint of a dorsal fin retreat to the beach. "D'ya want to get jawed?" shouted one kid to another in the Santa Monica, Calif., surf. Even...
...like an impotent rapist, or a scholar with writer's cramp. Harry Moseby gets everything set up--then he can't make the last move. He's likeable enough; the people around him bare themselves to him (quite literally, in the imagery of the picture), but Harry Moseby always stands silently behind screened porches, seen through the pane of a glass-bottomed boat, sitting down on a turned-around chair leaning his arms on the shield of its back. When he's got everything solved, and his life awaits that final gesture of control when all the pieces come together...
...witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide muscular cramp that Jackson likens to "a giant charley horse." To avoid future attacks, he still exercises daily for 45 minutes, usually in the Senate gym, where he swims a quarter of a mile and then vigorously pedals an exercise bicycle...