Word: sputterers
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...shouted, "then I hereby accuse Comrade Petar Stambolic of stealing my wife." The congress was stunned: Comrade Stambolic, sitting stone-faced on the platform behind Djuric, is no less a personage than the Premier of Serbia and one of Tito's closest friends. Comrade Djuric began to sputter out his bill of particulars, until someone had the presence of mind to turn off the microphone...
...great hypochondriac. During most of the first tour, he kept constant check on his temperature with two thermometers. Sometimes he even sneaked one on stage, concealed it behind his hand and took his temperature between lines. Once, Agnes Moorehead threw him a sudden, unexpected cue, and Boyer had to sputter the thermometer out of his mouth before returning to his role of the Great Lover...
...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...until the proposals for dropping pork-barrel items began piling up in the pantry, and the budget-cutters began to replace broad-gauged words with some specific proposals, could the U.S. taxpayer settle back and listen to the pleasant sputter of frying...
Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...