Word: spasms
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...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...
...Spasm of Pride. Humming with pain, Pacote goes back into the ring to fight his farewell bull. But the picador and banderilleros have not only slowed the animal (as they are supposed to), but stopped him. The bull refuses to follow the cape. Pacote thrusts in the killing sword, knowing it is only a dismal formality...
...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...
...girl in rehearsal clothes came on next, and approached the "Piper" with wide-eyed caution. He soon had them both in a trance. At a sudden flurry of notes, they staggered away, responding to every spasm of the music like so many puppets on strings...
...recent weeks, Coach Lloyd Jordan has made several statements concerning the place of athletics in general, and football in particular, in American education. Since he is coach of the Harvard football team, and since Harvard has been undergoing an athletic spasm of sorts, his remarks have been widely noted. And they have been noted in a way that has created considerable confusion as to just where Jordan stands in relation to Harvard's official football policy...