Word: nasality
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...know, meine Volksgenossen"-there was the nasal Austrian accent-"I know, meine Volksgenossen, what this war is demanding of you. ... I, more than anybody else, know. ... I also know that German towns will again rise from the ruins . . . more beautiful than ever...
Instructions and Decisions. For the better part of a year Hawks worked her out mainly in a vacant lot, bellowing anything from Shakespeare to odd copies of shopping news. In the fullness of time Hawks had achieved his purpose: he had developed her voice from "a high nasal pipe to a low guttural wheeze." He instructed her now to speak softly and naturally, paying no attention to the traditional voice-culture style which he surrealistically compares with "digging post-holes...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
...Acuff, whose Grand Ole Opry radio program has an audience of 130 NBC stations. Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys are known in every village town hall and crossroads school in Tennessee. Hundreds of admirers flow into Nashville to attend his Saturday-night NBC broadcast ; thousands listen to his nasal singing. And if Acuff can transfer his popularity to politics, he may yet give Crump the Memphis Blues...
...hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully wipe off on the nearest projection. . . . That night Marion and I broke down and sobbed in each other's arms...