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...principle of automatic control established by Butz. For years it plowed its sales dollars back into research to make better home controls, in World War II began to branch out in earnest by making Air Force automatic pilots and a radar sensitive enough to record so much as a twitch in a pitch-black room...
Standard treatment for air embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until...
Seeing Is Becoming. Switching from taking to giving ruins Harry's love life. "Those who once moved silkily toward him began to jerk, stumble, twitch and fall." Sympathy and empathy for all his fellow creatures sets in. He becomes what he sees. He limps in the presence of the halt. His stomach bloats. His hair falls out. He becomes ugly. He dies-longing to be his old self-contained self once more, but unable to cure himself of his disease...
...Nidelven is a fresh-water river. And fresh water, when inhaled into the lungs, does far more damage than salt: it evidently dilutes the blood, breaks down red cells, overfills the heart, destroys the body's balance of sodium and potassium salts, and usually causes the heart to twitch uselessly...
...Teuber is a highly competent Deputy: rigidly controlled, beautifully articulate. At times I found him a bit too conscientiously odious; Lord Angelo, I suspect, should not pick his teeth and ears or twitch his mouth quite so often. One must preserve the distinction between heartache and heartburn...