Word: spasms
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...Congress had not passed a single regular appropriation. There had been fundless days before, when one or another department failed to get its moneys voted. This time Congress had failed to provide a single dime for any part of the U.S. Government after July 1. In a last-minute spasm-after jamming through the controls extension (see above)-with characteristic confusion, wild errors and panicky haste, Congress jammed through a 31-day authorization to continue spending. It will be three weeks before the $8.5 billion foreign military aid bill even gets out of the House committee, a month before...
...periodic (and apparently harmless) muscle spasm in the soft palate, at the top of his throat. The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside. The specialists assured themselves that the muscle twitch in Jack's throat, which they could see, was perfectly synchronized with the tick, which they could hear...
Many others have a less obvious tenderness in muscles or arteries, which flares up as acute pain when they are handled by nurses. Still others have severe muscle spasm...
Academician Trofim D. Lysenko, ideological shepherd of Soviet geneticists, announced last week in Izvestia that Soviet agrobiologists can turn wheat into rye. All they have to do is plant wheat in places where the climate is tough for it. In a spasm of self-preservation, wrote Lysenko solemnly, the wheat turns into...
...tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...