Word: twitchingly
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...designs to meet the needs of today's disabled population. "We used to look at people who were disabled as shut-ins," she says. "Not anymore. Computers, new materials and new attitudes have revolutionized our industry. If you can move one muscle in your body, wiggle a pinkie or twitch an eyebrow, we can design a switch to allow you to operate in your environment...
...threat of conquest. In coping with that challenge, the country and its 14.5 million inhabitants find themselves poised on the sword edge of change. The modernization and enrichment of Saudi life produced by the oil- price boom of the 1970s and '80s may one day look like a mere twitch compared with the convulsions to come. "This impact will be greater," says a senior adviser to the Saudi government. "These changes won't just break the crockery but the furniture and the walls...
Rowers describe Parker as cerebral and enigmatic. While on the water, Parker will slowly cruise behind his boats, carefully watching the twitch of every blade as it is slipped into the water. But only in a while will he raise a battered crimson megaphone to his mouth to murmur something...
...Rose threatened DiMaggio's record with a 44-game hitting streak, the longest in the history of the National League. The caravan of newsmen chronicling Rose's every twitch, starting with what he had each day for breakfast, left out the commonly known fact that a paternity suit was imminent and his life away from the field was a shambles. Always his favorite place, the diamond had become his only haven, and every night he got a hit. "Damn, I'm going bad," he muttered aside one night to one of the reporters, who said, "Huh?" Rose threw...
...speedy talk tends to jar listeners--which is the main reason why attending T.M.U. lectures is as stimulating as gulping down a gallon of Jolt cola. "People around me start to twitch," says Maschitta. "I can start talking and I know they are going to be up until...