Word: tic
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...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...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 20--Probably the most confident underdog in recent years, the Harvard varsity football team, with a chance to tic for its first Big Three title in 13 years, went through a brisk pre-Yale workout in the Yale Bowl here today...
Lopez just hasn't helped Yale. Against Cornell, when the Big Red and Blue battled to a scoreless tic, he cost the Bulldogs a touchdown when he was unable to connect with a receiver on four throws from within the Cornell twenty. The discouraging thing about this, according to Eli sportswriters, is that the incompletions weren't the result of bad luck, they were the result of bad throwing...
...finished knotting his tic, Vag saw by his bureau clock that he had only five minutes before roll-call, and the parade ground was a half mile away. Dashing down stairs, he began an awkward jog up the street, puffing under the weight of his overcoat. By the time he reached the Square, a trickle of perspiration was wetting his starched shirt collar, and Vag slowed to recoup his breath...