Word: cramping
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While working on it she developed a bad case of writer's cramp. She tried writing with her left hand without success. In desperation, she turned to an electric typewriter. "But it was as if the typewriter were whining for the next sentence," she says. Finally she tried a regular typewriter, and the book flowed. "Mr. Highet says that this book is crisper and more concise because of the typewriter," she says triumphantly. And perhaps he is right...
...seventh round, Floyd had to be helped to his stool. He was suffering from a cramp in his back which was to prevent him from standing up straight for the remainder of the fight. He dragged himself around the ring, vainly attempting to counter the light, but rapid fire of the champion. Clay seemed to be carrying Floyd, hitting him at will, humiliating...
...trying to improve them by dumping George Reedy. The fact was that Reedy took leave for physical, not vocational reasons. He has long suffered from a painful hereditary condition known, rather unpleasantly, as hammertoes, in which shrinking tendons curl the toes downward and lock them into permanent cramp. He wears corrective steel-plated shoes that weigh three pounds each, but to remedy the ailment will probably require a series of operations involving severing the tendons and bone fusion...
...added that HGSP had, at the present time, no intention of including either Broadway productions or chamber music in its repertoire. "Our move," he said, "is meant in no way to cramp the style of Grant-in-Aid, the Hasty Pudding Show, of the House musicals...
...Observatory Hill. Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl...