Word: tic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicted the sheriff, charging him, on one count, with attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl who had worked as a domes tic for one of his friends, and on a second count, with seducing another teenager. As the result of a judicial hearing, Happy Apodaca was thrown out of office. The jury raided gambling joints on its own, confiscated slot machines and piles of gambling paraphernalia, scared every gambler in the state into shutting up shop...
...TIC DOULOUREUX, "one of the most painful conditions, to which the flesh is heir," can be relieved by alcohol injections...
...kick, and occasionally the Rio, featuring at present Andy Kirk and his atomic guitarist, Floyd Smith, are rocking to any other beat than three quarter time. Gone are the days when the respective hearts of the Boston Jazz Society, the Copley Terrace, the Ken, Maxie's, and the Tic-Toc were young and gay. O tempore, O mores! Some of us can be found of a gloomy week day eve crying in our beer at the Show Time where at least they sing a fairly complete, uninhibited version...
...Soldiers Field, the Varsity soccer eleven will take to the Business School Field in an effort in win its first game of the current season at the expense of an as yet untested Tufts outfit. Somewhat disappointed by the opener last Saturday ending in a 5 to 5 tic. Coach MacDonald has spent the week working up team play and expects his squad, made up almost entirely of veterans of former seasons, to make a good showing...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...