Word: sputters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Cooper protested about the time required away from his family. He com plained, too, about the astronauts' lack of opportunity to fly jets-and "incidentally" to collect flight pay. He shied away from the public togetherness of the other astronauts and their wives, leading one wife to sputter: "Why, he's . . . he's . . . he's not an astronaut...
...might have been gentle about it, allowing negotiations to sputter out in a confusion of details. He chose to be blunt...
...session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...
Such extremist views would do credit to any redneck, but the sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even...
Boyish Bob Cummings, most hapless of the lot, disappeared after a week of tiresome apologies for himself. These tentative flings sputter along, propelled by weak jokes and-when needed-repeats of a Linkletter show-and the best of Art is none too good...