Word: sputterers
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...eyes, blurring my vision, and fire burned in my esophagus. Before I had recovered my good common sense, I resolved to show that I was no weak-kneed norteamericano, and I took another, deeper swig. I was gasping for air as I handed the bottle back and could only sputter out, "Que fuerte, que fuerte!"--How strong! They wanted me, their amigo, to take more, but I had heard stories of men going blind in World War II from drinking wood alcohol. I politely declined. I stood awkwardly for a moment, trying to think of how I could communicate...
Boxer Joe Frazier started off the 50-meter swim with a spectacular belly flop. Furiously flailing away but going nowhere, Smokin' Joe surfaced long enough to sputter, "I quit!" Afterward, he panted: "It was like I was throwin' punches at the water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole...
...month, there is some ominous writing on the wall for the Shareholder 15. Like its predecessors which "involved" students in the decision-making process, this nebulous advisory body is earmarked for oblivion. Unless Bok consciously picks firebrand members to insure the committee's aggressiveness, the Shareholder 15 will likely sputter in the shadow of its Corporation companion...
...does Lewis Hoaglund, the conglomerate tycoon who likes to fire people as brutally as possible, have a huge machine in his backyard that has no function except to clank and sputter...
...quirks are endearing. Billed as a paragon of fair play, he nevertheless tends to characterize non-Nordic types as "a low specimen of the Central American half-breed" or as "ratty, dark-skinned" people. In his books black men shuffle, gawk and sputter things like "ah never seed such muscles befo'." Even more peculiar is Doc's method of dealing with the criminals he captures. With confidence in his lofty motives, he ships them to his "crime college" in upstate New York, where their criminal tendencies are corrected by brain surgery...