Word: tic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion. He listened with smug approval to his own high-pitched voice, glanced around beamingly for the laudatory nods and bobs of his four advisers. The more satisfied he seemed with his role as apologist for Russia and cross-examiner of Iran, the more pronounced became his facial tic...
Democratic Tic. The Bavarian revolution that succeeded World War I had its own puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into...
...bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners and the American dead, and, in the immediate aftermath of combat, the uncontrollable tic in the face of one of the liberators...
...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...