Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periodic (and apparently harmless) muscle spasm in the soft palate, at the top of his throat. The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside. The specialists assured themselves that the muscle twitch in Jack's throat, which they could see, was perfectly synchronized with the tick, which they could hear...
...billion rivers and harbors bill, trying to eliminate a list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana was not justified. In all, he listed...
...twitch of the neck: what better...
...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...
Robert Hutton is suitably obnoxious as the scheming young American heir, Patricia Roc is beautiful as his wife, and Jean Wallace is striking as his--ah--mistress. Laughton does no acting in the movie; he is Maigret in every characteristic--from the nervous twitch of his pipe to the walrus moustache that guards his mouth from all liquors save beer...