Word: spasms
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...matter how calm he may appear, when a stutterer has difficulty getting a word out he is really suffering from a spasm. The spasm is a disturbance of the motor nerves that control speech. It may possibly be set off by expansion of the tiny blood vessels in the cerebral cortex where the speech control centres are located. Last summer experimenters at University of Michigan's laboratory of biolinguistics made 24 stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling...
...Gogh's nephew, now a prosperous Amsterdam engineer, and from the Kröller-Müller Foundation at Wassenaar, owner of the most important van Gogh collection in the world. Though Nephew van Gogh was willing to lend his pictures, the Foundation first went through a spasm of nervous hesitation...
Barton has a spasm if anyone puts a hat on the bed or whistles in the dressing room. He never fails to drop coins into blind men's cups. In Hollis, L. I. he has a big house, owns a yacht and three automobiles. His wife is his sole business manager, rehearses and prompts him, takes care of the dogs, carries his spending cash for him in her stocking...
...when this climax to the three-day aerial spasm finally arrived, vengeful Colonel Turner was sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same...
...Hereafter," shouted Priest Coughlin in a climactic spasm of exaltation, "anyone who writes a platform for a Presidential candidate must consult the National Union for Social Justice. You members of the National Union are stronger than any President-stronger than any ten Presidents...