Word: nasalate
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Other prickly points of national pride and prestige came up. What language would Leonov and Stafford use for the greeting that would be heard round the world? Moscow and Wasinngton solemnly agreed that Stafford would use ins nasal Russian, Leonov ins casual English. Where would the instoric rendezvous occur? The Russians insisted that the linkup should be over Soviet soil, arguing that their ground controllers need "real time" communications with Soyuz during the critical approach and docking maneuvers and could not depend on delayed information relayed via satellites and tracking stations. Citing similar considerations...
Coles followed and in a nasal Boston accent, said that Boston's efforts at desegregating schools displays "the power of history to stay stubbornly close...
...designs for false bookshelves and secret passageways, Krotz some times appears to be auditioning for the part of James Bond's next artificer. But his improvisations are far more suggestive of a Maxwell Smart rerun. One can almost hear the nasal whine: "The old up-and-in opening-fulcrum-stair-kick-board hiding place, eh, chief?" One significant hiding place is omitted from this complete volume: a place large enough to accommodate both the thief and his victim. It is called the judicial system, with its hidden compartments-the police station, the courtroom and the jail...
Sharing Infection. Taking regular samplings after the volunteers developed colds, the researchers found that the nasal drippings of aspirin users more often contained virus than those of the nonusers. The aspirin users were thus more likely to spread their viruses and the colds they can cause. Reason: though the aspirin did not cure the colds, it relieved the symptoms sufficiently to allow the victims to go about their daily routines...
...minute accretions, Benny developed a persona that was never more than 39, intolerably stingy-he drove an old, wheezy Maxwell-and cranky beyond repair. When radio grew static he opened a 20-year feud with Fred Allen. Benny put a clothespin on his nose and mimicked Allen's nasal delivery. When Waukegan planted a tree in Benny's honor, Allen asked, "How do you expect it to live when the sap is in Hollywood?" Once when Benny was on the losing end of an exchange, he told Al len, "You wouldn't dare say that...