Word: tic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maurice, 12, suffered from a stammer and tic. After drinking nothing but wine and an occasional aperitif since infancy, he was retarded, with hands that shook like the paws of a Skid...
...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...
...Tic-Tac & Blower. Nearly half a million Britons traveled through the misty morning to be on hand. For all the royalty and high fashion, the day, as always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield. Red-faced north-country farmers and pale London clerks elbowed up to canvas stalls to buy jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads...
...Wilbur. Called twin Beds, it is dedicated to the Proposition that people of limited theatre-going experience will enjoy smutty leers and painfully-stressed innuendoes. The audience, seduced by a flood of "complimentary" tickets offering admission at half price, is mainly composed of giggling secretaries and their beaux in tic-less sport shirts: all alive to the glamour of a theatre first night...
...Traveler Pietro Nenni stalked the prey with a snarl. "We had hoped that Fanfani would prove to be the mouthpiece of the new, active spirit of the Catholic left," he said, "but instead, he reveals in the most stupefying and offensive way his conception of the corporate and paternalis tic state. Fanfani, your government is ... as dead as a sad smoked herring...