Word: defectiveness
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...TRUMPET is, in White's words, the story of "a young swan who had a speech defect and conquered it." Louis, a trumpeter swan, is born without a voice. His father-an eloquently verbose swan-promises to help, but still
...Montana to give his father Louis's accumulated earnings (minus expenses) of $4420.78 with which to repay the music store. Louis and Serena live happily ever after, migrating between Canada and Montana with yearly cross-country tours to show the kids where Louis spent his youth, overcoming his speech defect and restoring grandpa's honor. And every year the swanboatmen treats the parent swans to a night at the Ritz Hotel...
...Rockefeller who got on the phone to Washington, without apparent success, when Vice President Spiro Agnew attacked Republican Senator Charles Goodell. What Rockefeller may fear is that Republicans who defect to Conservative Senate Candidate James Buckley may also vote for Dr. Paul Adams, running for Governor on the Conservative line. Four years ago, Adams got more than half a million votes...
...prayer of thanksgiving. While the airliner was refueling to resume its interrupted flight, another of the passengers, a 31-year-old East Berlin engineer who had had nothing to do with the hijacking, decided on the spur of the moment to capitalize on his good fortune and defect from the Communist world...
...record is a heart-rending collection of the sounds of sickness. On it is the grunting cough of a child with hyaline membrane disease, a frequently fatal condition that occurs in premature infants. Also included is the feline mewing of a baby with cat-cry syndrome, a congenital defect that produces abnormal development of the brain, and the wheezing gasp of an asthmatic infant. Only one of the sounds on the 45-r.p.m. disk makes for pleasant listening. Obviously included for purposes of comparison, it reproduces the lusty cry of a healthy newborn...