Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, sat in his Manhattan office last week and fingered the ends of a thousand strings. Very important strings they were, strings whose slightest twitch could set hundreds of singers warbling, fiddles bowing, brasses mooing
After lunch he kept the margin until the 61st hole, where people that are 12 up in a 72-hole match either win or prolong the agony. Jones holed out from 30 feet ? but so, with a last furtive twitch, did Hagen. For his 237 strokes (seven under an average of 4's, five under the pars played), he then collected what Amateur Jones would have shunned in any case?swag; of $6,800, a record for this type of engagement...
...keep that intricate bit of landscape at its pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
Last week, the North American continent quivered in its sleep. Lying face up, it stirred its right shoulder; just a little twitch, but in one so enormous it was a movement visible and tangible in the states of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and sensible even in Italy, 5,500 miles away, where seismo-graphs recorded an earthquake of two hours' duration. Buildings were damaged, citizens frightened the Olympian, express of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, halted by part of a mountain moving in its path...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...