Word: tics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intense, nervous Prosecutor Fritz Bauer, whose eye tic and lined face attested to years in Nazi concentration camps, summoned his witnesses. He called survivors of the plot; he summoned theologians who said that Christians were justified in ridding their nation of tyrants. Another witness quoted Hitler himself in Mein Kampf: "If through exercise of governmental power, a nation is led toward ruin, rebellion is not only a right but a duty...
Herbert has a facial tic, especially when, as usual, he is worried. His eyes blink of themselves. On a park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only...
...like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult...
With the Hi-Hat offering swing groups only occasionally, Everctt's Parkway Club closed, and the Tic-Toc temporarily defunct, Katherine Donahue's Savoy looks to be the last "home of jazz" around stolid Boston. But William L. "Wild Bill" Davison is currently blowing his lungs out at the Savoy, and everyone--especially Miss Donahue--is happy...
This year, the Democrats hope to gain a clear majority in both houses of the Legislature (there is now a 20-20 tic in the State Senate) and re-gerrymander the districts to their own advantage...