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Word: stammerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ominous hint at the shape of things to come, he said: "I strongly warn the imperialist countries that their evil games will be reason for disturbing free navigation in the Suez Canal." Supplement to Sanctions. By week's end the Western powers had begun to do something besides stammer. Acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Nasser's Revenge | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one by one, its high dignitaries, shorn of their imposing beards, shambled forward to stammer confessions and recriminations like so many cringing schoolboys. The occasion: the trial of the Brotherhood leaders accused of attempting to assassinate Premier

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Snapping the Trap | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...artist himself is a brisk, cheery little fellow of 57 bearing an amazing resemblance to the dwarf named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NOT NICE, BUT NOT UNIQUE | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Maurice, 12, suffered from a stammer and tic. After drinking nothing but wine and an occasional aperitif since infancy, he was retarded, with hands that shook like the paws of a Skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wine Drinkers | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...first time, show that when Dodgson was not sunk deep in indignation, he was full of buoyant zest. If his Diaries make dull reading, it is partly because the author of the Diaries is not "Lewis Carroll" or even "dynamite." He is a shy professor who talked with a stammer and had an honest heart and a love of anonymity. About this man the Diaries are a mine of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Stone Days | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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