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Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia are convulsed by internal political turmoil.
From 1966 to 1976, China was convulsed by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
The authors might also have discussed the deliberate use of taboo words for their shock (or humor-inducing embarrassment) value by so-called “x-rated” comedians, especially performers like the American Lenny Bruce and the British Jerry Sadowitz and Kevin Bloody Wilson: some of that humor can be heard on British television, where some of the studio audience are evidently easily convulsed by the mention of words like shit and fart .
Mr Livingston's resignation unleashes the spectre of a political system convulsed by regular revelations of sexual affairs and demands from the Republican's [sic] religious right for sexual purity."
Has your name haunted you and convulsed others since you were a child?