Word: jagging
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...what would Mitchum's wife do? (During his talking jag, Mitchum had blamed their separation on his marijuana smoking.) On her way to California with the children, Jimmie, 7, and Chris, 5, she had heard the news in Las Vegas, and announced that she was undecided. By the time she reached Hollywood, she told newsmen that she would "stand by" Bob. Next day, to an obbligato of clicking shutters, the Mitchums posed in Hollywood's traditional happy-home embrace. Bob wore his screen-lover expression. Hollywood anxiously hoped that a public which (it thinks) likes and expects happy...
...first glance, patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
...Handmaiden. Far from being proud of his business connections, said Veblen, the tycoon does his best to convince people that he has never handled a deal in his life. He buys an impractical top hat, to symbolize his state of "conspicuous leisure." He goes off on a jag of "conspicuous consumption"-i.e., he pours his machine-made money into old china and silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots...
...from the maternal circulation shuts off the supply of drug to the newborn. . . ." If not treated, the baby may die of convulsions within a.week. Dr. Perlstein used a standard treatment for drug addiction-sedatives. Tapered off the phenobarbital after eight weeks, his baby patient emerged safely from its morphine jag...
...sounds as of bells and knocking). Finally his lips begin to twitch violently (the most common symptom); he goes into convulsions and falls unconscious. The final symptoms are much like those of an epileptic fit. But the victim quickly revives on breathing fresh air and, except for an oxygen jag lasting about an hour, shows no bad aftereffects...