Word: nasality
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...shabby grey suit bustled expressionlessly down the gangway, sank into the Opposition front bench facing Macmillan, and fingered a cardboard file. As the clock struck, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rose to his feet and for a second savored the tingling silence before breaking it with his flat, nasal Yorkshire voice. "This is a debate," he began, "without precedence in the annals of the House...
...suit, the Democratic senator could pass for an Ivy Leaguer. His pants sometimes bag a bit around the shoes, but, except for this, he hardly resembles the popular caricature of Senator Claghorn from the outlands. Church's speech is slightly nasal, but has none of the Khrushchev and the people of Idaho agree is abstract painting." But he can turn words and situations to advantage as well as amusement. When a student asked whether it was a good idea to send people like Senator Ellender to Africa, Church, reluctant to discuss the foibles of his colleagues, replied with a slight...
...repeats that bring him in continuing fees, known in the trade as "residuals," he makes about $300,000 a year. He can imitate anything from the cry of a loon to the whining drawl of a mountaineer, run effortlessly through all the categories of voice quality-rasp, strain, fog, nasal, sinus. He can shift ground from tight-lipped British to loose-lipped Brooklynese to American rural, and run analytically through the ages of man, making his voice grow older as he progresses from the breathiness of childhood to the cracking articulations of the elderly...
...bandstand at Disneyland, and so the bandleader thought it would be a gasser to see if he had a voice to go with the name. Up stepped Frank W. Sinatra, 18, and when he let go with I've Got You Under My Skin, he had the old nasal pitch and easy delivery. Sinatra's son, by a first marriage dissolved eleven years ago, is a drama student at Arizona State College, but he really wants to be a music man. What did dad think? "My father is not the kind of person who says much about things...
Civilization may have helped produce hay fever in ever larger quantities, but medical scientists still do not know the exact mechanism of hay fever, and, at best, the treatment they prescribe only alleviates symptoms. Antihistamines (which tend to dry up nasal passages) help give relief in 80% of cases, and steroids have proved to be useful. Allergists inject various kinds of pollens under the skins of their patients in order to desensitize them -a long and costly process that is only occasionally successful. Still under investigation is what the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases calls "one-shot immunization...