Word: tics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girls seemed a little amused by it all. One of her friends occupied herself by exchanging Chinese and English words with Shep Hoffman, a B.U. law student who was sitting next to her. When a teacher finally gave her a disapproving look, they switched to playing tic...
...want to go to the countryside to be a peasant," the one who'd been playing tic-tac-toe said...
Like the characters of In Their Wisdom, circling their pot of gold, Snow still twitches with what he calls the "tic of hope." He concludes with a phrase that a dozen years ago would have brought cries of "Banal old fogy!" from all the Angry Young Men. "The worst doesn't always happen," he writes. Today, in a world that will settle for less, the words mean more-even ring with a certain Colonel Blimp gallantry. How Snow readers have changed! How Snow has stayed the same! ·Melvin Maddocks
...reasonably handsome man in his 40s -wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...
...nervous tic afflicting the Tokyo grade school girl was so severe that her entire body shook every time she twitched. When she was finally brought to Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki, the diagnosis was surprisingly simple. The girl was lefthanded, and her mother had been trying to make her use her right hand by binding the left with tape. Two days after mom's therapy was stopped, the tic disappeared...