Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angry Twitch. Harold Stassen had come to the hearing primed with fresh charges. While Pauley glowered at him across the witness table, Stassen declared that Pauley had not liquidated his holdings after he became an Army assistant last September. Instead, Pauley had bought large amounts of lard and cottonseed oil, taken a $56,360 profit after the Government announced large purchases for shipment abroad. Previous deals in wheat, oats and hides followed the same "pattern...
Flashes of Light. With oxygen poisoning, the victim grows pale, feels as if he were choking, has attacks of nausea, is alternately exhilarated or depressed, has hallucinations (flashes of light, halos around everything, sounds as of bells and knocking). Finally his lips begin to twitch violently (the most common symptom); he goes into convulsions and falls unconscious. The final symptoms are much like those of an epileptic fit. But the victim quickly revives on breathing fresh air and, except for an oxygen jag lasting about an hour, shows no bad aftereffects...
...rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank's monopolistic operations will eventually wreck Britain's movie industry. Recently Rank was called upon to accept a British drama award on Mason's behalf-a situation so whimsical that Rank recognized it with an amused twitch of his mustache. This week, at a friendly luncheon in Manhattan, he presented the award to Mason...
...discovered at once by the sentinel who watched and heard him make an odd noise and twitch," Andrus contined. "The sentinel called the doctor and chaplain who were in the corridor and who found him dying...
...patient first notices a pins-&-needles sensation in his legs. After a time his head and shoulders may twitch, his eyeballs roll wildly, he sees double, reels when walking, stumbles in his speech, from time to time is seized by uncontrollable laughing or crying jags. In advanced stages he may be paralyzed...