Word: burp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate the glisteningly white, fat men that waddle through the narrow streets of New Orleans here. They come down from Alabama and Mississippi and upstate Louisiana to do drinking and get in their sin here. They go to strip shows and cackle and burp. They're drunk all the time in an aggressively unfriendly way. They bring their wives some of the time and swap them with their friends. They have Kodaks and stupid shirts and they never smile because they're just incredibly miserable and they come down here to reach new heights in misery. They have short hair...
...Burp Speech. Normal speech is impossible without a larynx, but thousands of patients who have had their larynxes removed because of cancer learn to speak by swallowing air and expelling it while they vibrate their gullet muscles. In this esophageal or "burp" speech, the esophagus (gullet) substitutes for the windpipe. Although the Ghent surgery team headed by Professor Paul Kluyskens would say only that Borremans' larynx had to be removed, his complaint was almost certainly cancer. Knowing that many laryngectomy patients fail to learn esophageal speech, Kluyskens decided that a new larynx would offer Borremans a great advantage...
...dawn, they tighten the noose, moving into the village and taking watchful control. They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours...
There must have been a gap of at least ten seconds between Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin M. Specie's announcement of his possible presidential candidacy and the beginning of the jokes-like how he would turn the Pentagon into the Triangle and replace the rifle with the burp gun. Increasingly active as a speaker and marcher against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, and co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Great Pacifier told a press conference in Washington that SANE in 1968 "will energetically support" an antiwar candidate, even if he has to run himself...
...through the silver tube, but when he exhales, the air will go past the closed tube and activate the valve at the top of the windpipe. This will serve as a substitute voice box, and Dr. Montgomery is confident that Lopata's speech will be superior to a "burp...