Word: lockjaw
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...cash in on the boxing racket. Managers, seconds, two-bit camp followers and big-shot promoters trooped down to the New York State Athletic Commission to put on a command performance for Julius Helfand, New York's crusading new commission chairman, and showed all the symptoms of psychosomatic lockjaw. For sheer, simple-minded effrontery, there had been nothing like it since 1951, when Gambler Frank Costello told Senator Estes Kefauver: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function...
Greasy Thumb finally said he did know Ragen, but did not know who killed him. Then he got lockjaw again, and was duly taken away, under arrest for contempt of Congress...
...brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...first I thought it was simple lockjaw. There was swelling in the back of the throats, light hemorrhages under the skin, fever and a high pulse rate. Then I noticed a rapid consumption of white blood corpuscles. . . . Finally there was internal bleeding in the intestinal tract...
...Cullen finds that, with curare, a surgeon can operate while the patient is in a light plane of anesthesia, thus reducing risk and speeding recovery from the anesthetic. He has even used it to keep a case of lockjaw from getting tense. But, he says, "complete and unqualified recommendation of the drug is withheld pending further clinical and laboratory investigation...