Word: gaggingly
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...with a small metal noisemaker attached. The problem, as one irate parent noted, is this: "My daughter, aged four, did not take the mouthpiece out of her mouth when she let the air out, and the metal piece that makes the noise shot down her throat. She started to gag and turn blue. Fortunately, she had just had dinner and the gagging made her vomit, forcing out the piece of metal...
...blamed the tragedy on Kent's "permissiveness" rather than the National Guardsmen who did the shooting. But he had reason for silence: the presiding judge forbade him and 300 others who testified from making any "critical comments." Last week, six days after a federal judge removed his legal gag, White spoke out with a blast at what he views as a new threat looming on U.S. campuses...
...speak now in contempt of court," Frank said, "in contempt of the naive and stupid conclusions of the special grand jury, specifically as to their reasons for the May 4 disturbances; in contempt of Judge Edwin Jones for the gag rules . . . and in personal contempt for Lawyer Ford for his lack of understanding after 68 years of what I believe is a wasted life . . . It is my feeling that the Republican Party feels it must smash the student uprising to stay in power. I know that some people should be prosecuted for what they did in May. But that should...
...obvious that he is, at best, a second banana. Knotts, the Milquetoast deputy sheriff on the old Andy Griffith Show, tried to make a virtue of his inability to sing, dance or string a show together. Opening night, Guest Anthony Newley pushed Knotts around and took command-a running gag that provoked a feeling of sympathy. But can other guests and the same gag make a season...
...sullen. The other (Helena Kallianiotes) delivers a ten-minute broadside at "man." She hates to disclose her destination (Alaska) because "man" will go up there and make it filthy. Like Nicholson in Easy Rider, Kallianiotes knows how to establish a character swiftly and how to make a running gag gallop. When she is on, the picture is wholly hers. Perhaps it is a characteristic of the new "road" pictures. In which case, the star should have known his fate. After all, he did it first...