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Word: twitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game Finn was only one of three laxwomen to notch hat tricks. Den Hartog notched four goals, and after scoring her first goal in a Crimson uniform at 6:14 of the first half, freshman Lisa Black proceeded to twitch the twang four more times...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Romp | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

...time-polished two-step, while the younger couples try to avoid each other's toes. But when Cole Porter gives way to rock 'n' roll, it is the older group that looks a tad silly dusting off their versions of the jitterbug, while the baby boomers twitch admirably to the new music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Dallas: Mimi Makes Her Debut | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...John Carpenter's script) cuts to a close-up of the needle sliding through the jelly all the way to the back of the skull. Then he drops the nurse in a heap. The men are dispatched quickly and unceremoniously, but Rosenthal lingers on the women to the last twitch and beyond. About time...

Author: By David B. Edelstern, | Title: More Merriment | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...after the whole species. But, as I understand it, they're all closely related anyway. Apparently someone associated with the Patriots' Pin-ups, or whatever they call that twitch team out at Foxboro, helped Harvard's corps get organized...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Sideline Shenanigans | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...place was the Walt Disney Studio. Members of the young team that drew Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy and the rest of its barnyard denizens were early students of what is now referred to as body language. They understood that, on the screen, action is character, that in the exaggerated twitch of one of their little anthropomorph's bottoms, the stretch of his back or the lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Great Era Of Walt Disney | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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