Word: spasms
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...runs a physiologist's description of a sneeze. But such words pale before a sneeze's peppery reality. Last week Professor Marshall Walker Jennison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took high-speed, stop-motion photographs of this complicated phenomenon. His findings: 1) every spasm expels thousands of droplets, 250th of an inch in diameter, heavy with millions of germs; 2) human "muzzle velocity" runs as high as 150 feet a second, nearly two miles a minute...
...Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
...cavalry going against German motorized forces, horses dragging anti-tank guns. Across the fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...
...Joseph ("Spasm") Ison and Wilfred Brunder, two West Indian Negro policy bankers, corroborated Witness Weinberg...
...their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down the steep slate roof to the turgid Charles far below, wandering aimlessly between green banks and slatternly factories...