Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill would look at me through his dark glasses and wink (or was it a twitch) and smile (or was it a leer), and say to whomever happened to be sitting on the wooden stool next to his, "What a smile. God, she looks mischievous! Look at those pretty lips." I thought of Red Riding Hood--the better to do what with? I got attention, kisses on the hand, compliments. One of the waitresses came...
...alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
When technical hiccups occur, the whole global system often begins to tremble and twitch. Example: just as U.S. refinery capacity was being strained by the demand for gasoline, Exxon was hit in late March by a freak fire at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J. The accident has knocked out some 160,000 bbl. per day of refining production until at least June. That has kept the company switching around tankers on the high seas, sending them to other refineries in a desperate rush to make sure that every drop of crude is refined in a hurry...
...gold that is sold ultimately becomes jewelry. In the U.S., it is marketed in shops from Beverly Hills' gilt-edged Rodeo Drive to Manhattan's grubby but thriving diamond district along West 47th Street, where wholesalers are constantly weighing their wares and repricing them as each new twitch in the gold markets alters their value...
Fitzsimmons remembers being buttonholed by a Society member while still an undergraduate. "He had a nervous twitch, and he said to me, 'So you think it's tough being Harvard's goalie, eh?' The guy's a very successful businessman, but he had fire in his eyes. He said, 'Just wait until you get out into the real world'--twitch, twitch--'then you'll see how tough life really is!' I cracked up laughing, and figured if this is what happened to old goaltenders, then I didn't want any part of the Society," says Fitzsimmons...