Word: cramping
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...drugs cause cramp...
...boss-a black-haired little ex-soldier named Dante Stradella-reacted just as many another enterpriser had acted before him. First he argued. He had served 18 months overseas with the Army, had been wounded at Messina, was trying to make a start on borrowed money. The union would cramp his style. When that got him nowhere, in clipped West Side accents he spoke what was closer to his heart: he thought the union was a racket; his answer was no. To this routine performance the union had a routine answer: pickets...
...high school is not merely to speed the bright boy to the top. it is at least as much (so far as numbers are concerned, far more) so to widen the horizons of ordinary students that they and, still more, their children will encounter fewer of the obstacles that cramp achievement...
...Writer's cramp awaits the neophytes in several forms today. At 11 o'clock many of them will take the examination for exemption from English A in New Lecture Hall; if the test is true to form, only a small fraction will pass. Placement tests in Chemistry, Physics, French, and Spanish will be given this afternoon...
...only additions to the weekly ration . . . were vegetables grown in the garden and the eggs provided by six hens known to readers of this column as the Six Little Suckers. The Six Little Suckers now at The Nest are not the original Suckers. Some have died of layers' cramp, some have been killed by dear little doggies, and some, weary of their concentration camp and disgusting food, have committed suicide by wedging their heads into the wire netting and twisting their own necks. But apart from the few who took the coward's way out, tribute must...