Word: interrupting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain-talker, and the only thing that stops her momentarily is the need for oxygen; she gasps, and the unpunctuated torrent of words gushes on until she must breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...
...normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...
...Laurence Olivier, who throws everything he has into every role he plays, might have to slow down. He had to interrupt his New Zealand tour for a few days to have a knee cartilage fixed: he had been playing Richard III with such an emphatic stage limp that he had given himself a real...
...Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling all get remarkably open, and rather funny, until a pack of Shawnees interrupt, with flaming arrows...
...Party still had its machinery of civil war, prepared long ago. Although the cogs were rusting, the Communist leaders shielded it against the day when they could use it. News of Togliatti's shooting reached the Italian Senate to interrupt a violent harangue by Communist Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini against a government plan to speed up the collection of arms from private organizations, including the Communists...