Word: twitchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topped by a huge, sonorous fan-have found Ho ruddy-cheeked and cheerful. For a Communist boss, he has a lively sense of humor: once when Chou En-lai spoke in Hanoi, Ho sat on the stage beside the speaker, subtly aping Chou's every gesture and facial twitch, much to the audience's amusement-and Chou's puzzlement. As a carryover from his days of flight and subversion, he favors disguises, fooling even such close friends as Giap by merely rolling up his trousers to look like a country yokel...
...France, to step out of the snare, would have to abandon its whole campaign for swift completion of the Common Market farm plan-and the Eurocrats were certain the French would never agree to that. But a clever diplomat never says never. Last week, without a twitch of embarrassment, Couve de Murville blandly told his colleagues in Brussels that since the Rome Treaty provided until 1970 to complete an agricultural common market, France saw no reason why everyone should be in such a hurry to finish...
They discovered that some types of internal pacemakers are so designed that a diathermy machine operated within three feet of them causes interference; the pacemaker pulses so fast that the heart cannot keep up, and so it will stop or just twitch. The same interference occurs within six inches of a neon sign, or close to the frequency-regulating coils of radio transmitters. One form of diathermy is commonly used in doctors' offices for simple surgery such as removal of warts. Human tissues afford some shielding for a patient with an implanted pacemaker, but interference may still be dangerous...
...Loser. At 30, Elvis is the granddaddy of big-time rock 'n' roll. His second-skin jeans have been replaced by somewhat wider slacks. His sideburns have been shortened 1½ inches. And his gyrations have calmed down to a dull twitch...
Predictably, some of the critics also wound up in a twitch over what one of them called the "tarting up" of the Bard. The Daily Mail found Graves's play doctoring "impertinent and silly-never did a clever man make so public a fool of himself." But the Observer, among others, decided it liked the prosciutto fine: "Not for years has the human substance of Shakespeare been refleeted like this." The public apparently agreed. Last week, after a month in the repertory, the National Theater's Much Ado was still selling out even the standing room back...