Word: cramping
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...Book recommenders cramp my bowels," said the middle-aged cynic, and turned away. But there had been a time when he was young, when the Soon-to-be Lost Generation trooped to the local tavern and lit candles to a literary icon most of us have now forgotten...
Soon the truth was out. While still at sea on his nine-day trip from New York, the Cardinal had developed an ache in his right arm. At first it had been ascribed to recurrence of the "writer's cramp" he had apparently suffered in Chicago, the result of his characteristic thoughtfulness in writing personal replies to thousands of letters of congratulation on his appointment. But the ache had grown to pain, and the pain to agony...
...little more than the author's tone of voice and a mood of isolated lives. For dramatic focus, Adapter Sergel forfeited the rich multiplicity of characters, fastened upon the struggle of ailing Elizabeth Willard (Dorothy McGuire) to free her sensitive if needed son George (Ben Piazza) from the cramp of Winesburg and his crass hotelkeeper-father (James Whitmore) and let him go off to become a writer...
...York City's International Airport at Idlewild, on the southeastern edge of Queens, has sprouted like a teen-ager since its opening a decade ago. But the barracks-like terminal buildings originally built as temporary edifices remained to cramp it like an outgrown and tattered suit. Last week Idlewild got a sparkling array of new buildings eminently befitting its position as the aerial gateway to the U.S. While 2,000 guests looked on, New York's Governor Harriman, New Jersey's Governor Meyner and Mayor Wagner of New York City formally dedicated a $30 million, half-mile...
Achilles Wrist. In Amersham, England, the city magistrate court was forced to adjourn temporarily when Court Clerk A. Ferguson got writer's cramp...