Word: sputterers
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...students who work for them. Despite the decentralized nature of the hiring system all the employers of student workers appear united on one principle-there is no need for wage increase. When confronted with the economic facts of life they quickly bury their heads in the sand and sputter incomprehensibly. The facts indeed speak for themselves. Student workers deserve a raise as much as do other University employees...
Congress displayed a soggy lack of enthusiasm; the public was remarkably silent. So it seemed possible that the debate over peacetime conscription, touched off by President Truman's message to Congress (TIME, Oct. 29), might sputter out like a damp fuse in the fogs of the first postwar autumn...
Every evening he strolled back to the prisoners' stockade, locked himself in. Every morning he turned up at the cook tent, where he would cheerfully sputter the few English phrases he had learned, most of them unprintable...
...truculent sputter from the late...
Everywhere there were signs that there would be enough food for the winter: golden patches deepening in the green velvet counterpane; the full grain in the ear; the arched necks of horses dipping willingly as the first fields fell to the reapers; the sputter of tractors; and the patina of maturity touching the cabbage leaves in thousands of little back yards. God helping, it would be the biggest harvest in all of Britain's history, and people were grateful. Not that they would eat more-they would eat less. But every extra ton of ripening grain...