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Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia are convulsed by internal political turmoil.
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?
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 .