My sister says i have heart spasms.

It's called an epilepse because of the arching caused by muscular spasms the contortions.

No! It's an historic event that you have been hit by spasms above the navel.

One might object to comparing America s desire to export democracy at the barrel of a gun to Russia s imperial death spasms under Yeltsin and Putin. But, whether we like it or not, there is a strong parallel between them both countries are perceived to be dictating to Muslims.

MOSCOW The atmospherics surrounding Xi Jinping s coming trip to Russia his first visit to a foreign country as China s new president remind me of a slogan from my early childhood in the late 1950 s Russia China, Friendship Forever. The irony is that, even in that slogan s heyday, Sino Russian relations were deteriorating fast, culminating in spasms of combat along the Amur River in Siberia less than a decade later.