Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...indeed it was. Back home, President Juscelino Kubitschek had postponed important political conferences, Vice President João Goulart adjourned the Senate, great crowds gathered in the public squares to listen to kick-by-kick accounts of the games. Well aware that their country was headed for a long spasm of mourning if they lost, the Brazilians never gave the Swedes a chance. They won going away, 5-2. And they headed for home confident of being welcomed as heroes-beyond any argument, the finest soccer team in the world...
...thumb and forefinger. His bravura passages are majestic with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a wonder of velvety control. His flexible rhythm gives even the most familiar music unexpected tensions. As he plays, his faunlike face registers emotion like a mass of exposed nerve ends, winces in a spasm of pain when he hits one of his rare wrong notes...