Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violence on and around campuses may yet succeed and surpass the traditional types of slum upheaval in casualties. Clashes between student militants and university and civil authorities have already triggered guns, ignited fire bombs, and broken heads from coast to coast. The latest spasm at Berkeley, in which students and police confronted each other over an off-campus issue, demonstrates how easily a single crisis can involve both city and university...
Should over-all deterrence fail, it would give the President the option of a flexible response rather than a spasm response, as the nation would not lie naked to the Soviet attack. Our weapons would have more chance of survival for use as needed...
...spasm of dishonesty that brings him back to Egypt, where he had served as a soldier in World War II. Officially, Townrow is there to help arrange the affairs of an elderly widow, assuming an altruistic role as the dead husband's best friend. But being Townrow, he keeps a twitching eye out for a piece of the estate...
...push. I can feel the baby. It's on its way, Jimmy. It's coming out. Oh Jesus, tell me when to push." She spread her legs as wide as she could, holding her feet with her hands. "The baby's coming!" Her whole body tightened in a spasm, and then relaxed...
...spasm that routinely greets the arrival of military recruiters on college campuses, protesters occupied the offices of Columbia University's student placement agency for all of five minutes last week-time enough for them to perform a few customary acts of vandalism. Then the quiet of the midyear exam period returned...