Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nolen's operation went without a hitch. Awakening in the recovery room four hours later, he found himself in a tangle of tubes and wires. Almost every bodily function was being monitored or controlled. To ensure adequate oxygen for his heart, he was hooked to a respirator. If he tried to move, he felt a sharp chest pain (from the break that was made in his breastbone to get at his heart). Later, as he listened to the beep-beeps of heart monitors echoing through the corridor, he nervously wondered whether any change in their steady rhythm was coming...
...devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
...Frenzy (Hitch & ties), Friday and Saturday...
...Marnie (Hitch's klepto) tonight at 8. Nada (Chabrol) Sunday...
...birds were walking. The ones who survived would understand the meaning of 'alone.' " Bailey had transferred to the Marines to do his jet flight duty, and wound up, by a felicitous military fluke, as his squadron's chief legal officer. He spent the last 17 months of his Marine hitch prosecuting, defending, judging or investigating military cases. On the side, he apprenticed with a civilian lawyer, a fact that helped him to talk his way into Boston University Law School after his discharge, even though he had not finished college...