Word: spasm
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These dismal speculations can be resolved, of course, only with the appearance of Mr. Wilson's next novel. It is to be hoped that his spasm of anger will have passed. But until his next book is finished one must worry...
...Travell has concentrated on what doctors call muscle spasm and patients call muscle cramps. During most of her career, the main drug used to relieve these pains-often agonizing, sometimes crippling-has been procaine (Novocain), which has to be injected. Dr. Travell learned to make skillful use of the so far unexplained fact that the patient's relief from pain often lasts for weeks or months, though the procaine itself wears off in a few hours. She has treated herself and practically every member of her family, including her husband, Investment Counselor John Powell, who gets his pains...
What happened next is the subject of angry argument. The ambulance attendant says that the frightened boys told him only that Swanson had "a spasm in his throat," never mentioned the meat, which he could easily have removed. A fire department resuscitator squad that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...
Winter's dying spasm may not meet with the approval of the Public Works Department nor of Harvard students who like to attend classes, but further north, the owners of ski resorts are wild with joy. Although the ski season perenially lags after Washington's Birthday, good spring skiing can sometimes keep the proceeds coming in until April...
...told them that the words I was saying were the Queen's words and asked them if they would refuse the Queen's words. They said they did refuse the Queen's words." And with that unexpected defiance, the long docile Batonga erupted in a brief spasm of fury. Some 500 young tribesmen, armed with spears and pointed sticks, charged the police, were promptly scattered by a volley of gunfire which killed eight and wounded...