Word: spasms
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...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...
...that, at moments of tension and anxiety, Richard's speech is afflicted by a slight stammering over sibilants and gutturals. There are even traces of the Maurice Evans tremolo, and at one point Madden pushes his voice to a gargly fortissimo. Later he even seems to suffer a chest spasm or an asthma attack...
...suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey diagnosis...