Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other papers also got into the act. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News called it "a five-spasm series," while such dailies as the Chattanooga Times hailed it for showing "up Senator McCarthy for the ruthless demagogue he is." Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet expressed astonishment that Woltman, who has "earned widespread support as an anti-Communist writer," could abandon his "fairness, integrity and accuracy" and turn "hatchet man." The Pittsburgh Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Pittsburgh diocese, took an exactly opposite view, called the series a "study which the country needs and for which it has been waiting...
...hunter at the party; he is a legendary lion himself, able to play every role from stuffy country gentleman to rollicking bohemian in gold earrings. "The line of lawyers from which I spring weakened apparently by repetition, seems to have exhausted itself," he once explained, "and in a final spasm brought forth a kind of recidivist, throwback or survival of an imaginary golden and lawless age . . . But there is no need for alarm: the monster is amenable and responds to kindness...
...doing too much, said Dr. Matsner, the well-meaning physician may defeat his own purpose. The taking of basal body temperatures for many months, daily vaginal smears and repeated tissue tests can provoke anxiety that leads to tension and to spasm of the fallopian tubes. "By the time a woman gets through with these tests," Dr. Matsner said, "she is so tense that conception is impossible. The poor girl is thinking of exact times and methods, instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course. The couple's sex life should not be regulated by the calendar or dictated...
...told medical experts that they were all wrong, and that she was the only one who knew the real nature of polio. The doctors, she argued, treated polio on the assumption that the affected muscles were simply paralyzed. According to Sister Kenny, what was really important was a muscle spasm, and the doctors with their casts and splints were only making it worse. Some medical groups were openly hostile. But in Minneapolis, city hospitals gave Sister Kenny a chance to show what her hot packs could do. By December 1941, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis accepted her treatment...
...crowd shuffles from its seats in murmuring disgust, a spasm of pride stiffens Pacote. He calls for another bull. Standing on a handkerchief, never moving his feet, he makes nine faultless "passes of death." Working ever closer to the bull, he sees its horns pass him at ten inches, at five, at two, until he has executed 24 passes in a row. His tunic is smeared with blood from the bull's flank, but the crowd calls for more. As Pacote moves in over the bull's horns for the kill, the animal tosses its head...