Word: spasm
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...Here I am having a spasm and a hissy in Robert Urich's presence when I should be listening to the lecture in my Shakespeare class," said passerby Marjorie B. Ingall...
Last week's disaster may lead to more insights. Scientists had earlier set up sophisticated seismological instruments in and around the Michoacan gap, and the devices were working when the spasm occurred. Says Seismologist James Brune of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "It will be the best-recorded major quake ever...
...holds out a measure of hope for Blacks and "coloreds" in South Africa to again basic workplace dignity, economic parity, and eventual political justice. While these goals may be only marginally furthered by concerned American involvement. They will not be furthered at all by a fruitless and pious and spasm of divestiture by precisely those American institutions which South Africa's Nationalist government would be happiest to ignore...
...range from the erotic awakening of a honeymooning couple to the pensiveness of an old man surveying his fields and finding solace in memory. The book's third section contains more poems inspired by the tale of Sweeney. They describe the bird- man's first flight: "more sleepwalk than spasm" . . . drawing "close to pebbles and berries . . . relearning the acoustic of frost." He recalls his roosting place in a chestnut tree, characterized as "a queen in her fifties, dropping/ purses and earrings," and the highlights of an avian existence as he goes "scaling heaven/ by superstition/ drunk and happy...
Norway's gaunt and great Grete Waitz finished second, 1 min. 26 sec. late, without encouraging any discussion of her chronically creaky back. It had been in severe spasm the day before. Benoit was "too strong," said Grete, who had never before lost a marathon that she finished. By the halfway point, according to her old Norwegian saying, "the train had already left." Waitz was one of the few runners who viewed the Swiss straggler with a totally unmixed emotion: "I would have taken her right off the track. I don't like to watch that." Benoit sighed...