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• n  a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

• The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths.
• After Estrada's overthrow in 1920 came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his .
• By doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills.

News & Articles

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• Joy Of Specs: This Unauthorized Commercial For Tic Tac Will Make You Feel Funny
  Warning: not safe. Period. Somebody decided to make a spec commercial for Tic Tac--and the brand can’t be too thrilled. "Four Calories," directed by Crobin , is a three-minute and 15-second hallucination, involving a fat, mostly naked tic tac fetishist, a man playing the trombone, and a passed-out degenerate covered in his own blood. The ostensible brand message: Shake it up. The director told ...
  June 13, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
• Fishing with the Boys
  Croaker in the cooler makes for good eating at the table Dennis Doyle My young sons were doing their best to emulate my actions as we drifted bloodworms over a hard shell bottom in a gently moving tide that June evening. My one-ounce sinker sent a tic-tic-tic flicking up the line on my light casting outfit. The rod tip was twitching right in rhythm.     Harrison’s rod suddenly arched. He ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bay Weekly
• Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog
  A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over 2,000 TICs in the current lottery system. [ more › ]
  June 12, 2013 - SFist

Quotes

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• Alex Rodriguez in Chicago Tribune
  I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs,said Rodriguez, who was joined at the head table with Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi.
• RJ Umberger in USA Today
  We had that never-quit attitude last year,Umberger said. "It doesn't always have to be pretty. But this team has to dig in. We're a hard-working team, that's our MO. We can't get into the pretty, tic-tac-toe kind of game. We're a team that...
• Matt Barnes in USA Today
  Barnes said the officials need "to stop calling such tic-tac fouls on him."