Word: sputterers
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...pause that descended on the nation's economy last spring is hanging on much longer than almost anyone expected. Though most economists and businessmen are still confident that the recovery will soon regain its momentum after six months of quietly marking time, the sounds of cough and sputter in the economy, just three weeks before the election, are worrisome for President Ford. Earlier this year it seemed that the then steadily brightening picture in jobs, prices and profits, following the worst recession since World War II, would be Ford's strong suit in the campaign...
Sabatini's talents as a stylist lie well to the south of, say, Sir Walter Scott's. He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!" Yet in the next sentence Sabatini can turn a flashing phrase (a eunuch's hands are two "bunches of fat fingers...
...felt the water temperature and temporarily decided against entering the pool. And when his friends invited him into the water, Luis would sputter, "no way," "no chance," and "you guys are sick." Eventually, he did go in, entering on a completely formless dive...
...Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games, in that order. Some scenes are animated versions of Feiffer's cartoon strips. Basically one-line throwaways, they lack dramatic continuity, but they sputter with hilarity...
...made no specific commitment to continued U.S. military aid, although it did permit each side to replace its then existing military equipment. This could be construed as an implied U.S. obligation to resupply the ARVN, although the agreement was also based on the premise that the righting was to sputter out and stop. Kissinger was on shaky ground, too, in assuming that the U.S. Congress would remain committed to indefinite continuance of military aid whatever the sense of the nation at the time. The accords did not require and did not receive ratification by Congress...