Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against a background of growing official repression, at least 15 bombs exploded across Chile last week in a spasm of antigovernment violence that killed four people, including one police officer. In the capital of Santiago, four soldiers were wounded when gunmen opened fire on them from a passing car. A bomb blew a hole in the wall surrounding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Harry Barnes...
Wall Street has become so enthralled by cheap oil that the slight rise in crude prices at the end of last week helped trigger a spasm of disappointment in the stock market. Fearing that petroleum has already fallen as far as it can go, investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting a record 82.50 during the week, to close at 1739.22. Earlier the Dow had ended the first quarter up 17.6% since the beginning of the year...
...learns both ways. It's better. It's power." Mallory falls into a coughing spasm. He's had the flu for weeks, he says. At his job working as a messenger for the city government, they think that he is shirking. They want to fire him, says Mallory. But they won't get away with it. "Look at this." He produces an official letter of complaint from his employers, several pages of grievances, ranging from laziness to insubordination to petty thievery to poor hygiene and unkempt appearance. "They think they'll throw me out, but I've got a union...
...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...