Word: spasms
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...those whom it does not stun or kill, disaster brings a spasm of new growth. Mrs. Kennedy is keenly conscious of this process, which gives meaning to the word immortality in a line (from her brother's epitaph) that keeps running through her mind: The reward of fortitude is immortality. Her book shows a whole nation earning that reward...
...London answered this theoretical objection from practical experience. Wrote she: "Somewhat shame facedly and surreptitiously I have encouraged any expectant mothers, who felt so inclined, to drink this infusion. ... In a good many cases in my own experience the subsequent labor has been easy and free from muscular spasm. . . . More labors are held up by muscular . . . tension than are delayed by muscular weak ness...
Mild was the temblor felt in Mexico's capital compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...
...conditions may cause symptoms of pseudocyesis. Sometimes, in older women, an apron of fat develops over the abdomen at menopause. Other women may have large tumors, or their abdomens may be distended with air. Most common cause is hysteria: an intense psychological desire for a child creates a muscular spasm which pushes the abdomen out. Treatment varies : purges may be helpful, or the muscles may be worked into place while the patient is under an anesthetic. Since most of the cases are hysterical, Dr. Rutherford thinks pseudocyesis is psychiatry's baby...
...morning a little girl's mother cooked a new kind of breakfast cereal. The child lifted a spoonful, put it in her mouth. Her lips and tongue swelled like balloons. She fell into a spasm of coughing, began to suffocate, fainted. When the doctor arrived on the run, he saw at once what had happened, injected adrenalin. In a few hours, restored to normal, the little girl was scampering around as though nothing had happened. There was nothing wrong with the cereal except that it contained flaxseed, to which the child was violently allergic...