Word: tic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office "turned out to be not a spiritual leader at all, but a renegade. He interpreted the people's splendid acclaim of him as adequate proof of his greatness." Diefenbaker's administrative skills were those "of a backwoods barrister," says Newman, describing weeks of fran tic search by Diefenbaker's staff for a letter from President Eisenhower - a hunt that ended when Diefenbaker found the letter under his own bed. In Cabinet meetings, says Newman, Diefenbaker acted the tyrant, treating his colleagues like a "delinquent scout troop," refusing to allow smoking and demanding unanimity on all questions...
Chicago shut Gordie out, then New York, Montreal and Boston. Against New York, he even had a "gift" shot at an unprotected goal and banged the puck harmlessly off a metal stanchion. Normally cool and controlled, he acquired a noticeable tic, exploded in anger at a magazine photographer. "This pressure is getting me," he muttered. It was getting everybody: desperately trying to feed Gordie the puck, his teammates passed up dozens of easy shots for themselves, lost three out of five games. "We've got to get this goal and get it over with," grumbled Coach Sid Abel...
...rapprochement, the Chinese leadership aims at aggravating differences." Equally Matched. If that was Peking's purpose, it could find no better man than Teng. Short, stocky, in his 60s, Teng was believed badly crippled in the Chinese civil war, still has a limp and a nervous tic when he speaks-which does not keep him from speaking often and abrasively. No stranger to the Russians, he attended two previous Moscow meetings on the split-in 1957 and in 1960. A veteran of Mao's Long March to Yenan in the 1930s, Teng came to prominence as a political...
Tammy Grimes's Cyrenne is a perkily perfect farceuse, a bedroom imp continually assuming antic positions with dry-witted composure. Edward Woodward's Percy is a plebeian prince of pathos. Under his toothbrush mustache lurks a toothy nervous tic of a grin with which he commits endless facial suicides of self-doubt. He is as simple as the wooden rattle (a soccer-game noisemaker) that he carries in his hand. A mere kiss from Cyrenne makes him act like a porpoise with convulsions...
...recent years half of both the men and women students have been members of fraternities and sororities. The ratio between men and women at Ole Miss is 60-40. Though there are many exceptions to this rule, the Greeks usually have higher scholar tic average that the "independents," especially among the girls. Last June three students graduated with special distinction: all three were Greeks...