Word: twitch
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...position had the simple clarity of a stone wall. One nervous twitch of a Japanese trigger finger, one jump in any direction, one overt act, might be enough. A vast array of armies, of navies, of air fleets were stretched now in the position of track runners, in the tension of the moment before the starter...
...nickel to hear a radio play has had a determining influence on radio scripts and script writers. It means that the usual radio play gets no direct response from the customers, very little from impartial reviewers. Radiomen like to talk as if their stuff were attuned to the twitch of intangible millions, but the truth is that no box office and few critics exist...
...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...
Months ago, Planner Franklin Roosevelt faced a group of men in the White House and in grave mood told them what they thoroughly agreed with: that the present transition of the U.S. to a wartime basis would be only a twitch in the national economy compared to the transition to come at war's end-back to a peacetime economy. He had an assignment: outline a plan for action by which the U.S. could return to peace without convulsions of depression and unemployment...
...come in, do come in, do come in; sit you down, sit you down" and the show is on. Lavish requests to share his Virginia Rounds are poured out, flavored with an extreme East-end accent and strained through a prodigious black moustache. Twinkling eyes and a quick twitch of the heavily-bushed mouth signal that this is nimble-witted company. Immediately one senses that here is a true scholar, soaked with the disciplinary English tradition. He is modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages...