Word: stammering
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...Ambassador. It was small wonder that when 18-year-old Wilfrid Sheed met her he was awestruck. Her intimidating husband, the novelist-critic recalls, "summed me up with brutal accuracy as someone he didn't have much to learn from, certainly not enough to crank up his famous stammer for." But Clare Boothe Luce was something else. At 46, she remained "drenchingly beautiful" and "slightly coquettish." Wilfrid was the son of Roman Catholic publishers, and Clare had become a famous convert to the Catholic Church. Religion was their touchstone, and at the Luce house in Ridgefield, Conn., she made...
...second-term state senator from Nebraska who is considering a run for Governor, manages credible and even convincing answers to probing questions on water policy, a prime concern to Nebraska farmers. But then comes a change-up from his questioner. "What's your favorite color?" Dworak starts to stammer a confused response and finally breaks up in laughter on-camera. "Remember," admonishes the unamused interviewer, "be ready for anything...
...class was nervous: here it was the first day, and the teacher was already talking about Yeats. No mention of exams or papers or grading policies, or even a syllabus. And a bad stammer marred his soft brogue as he spoke briefly of gyres and regenerative cycles and Cuchulain and the Easter rising. But he was a dramatic figure, backlit by the sun through the room's only window. And when he started to read poems--when his stammer disappeared in the steady flow of rich, musical verse--the students were enchanted, as much by him as his subject...
...life for growing up and getting to know people"--he was sub-assistant carpenter. "I hadn't any expectation of going to college," he says. But since his father dreamed of his son attending West Point, Kelleher enlisted in the National Guard though he was certain "my stammer was severe enough to keep him out of the service academy. In those days, Kelleher says, he used to "walk a lot;" one trip to Connecticut took five or six days of steady plodding, he recalls. And so, when it turned out the West Point physical was to be held in Boston...
...place after another in an attempt to create a more solid history. It is scholarly work that does not require lecturing, which in some ways may be a relief for Kelleher. Though the Configuide and other sources have labelled him one of Harvard's finest lecturers, his severe stammer makes teaching more frustrating for Kelleher than for most. "I just keep going...but stammering is a terrible exhausting, business. After teaching a class where I've been caught in a bout of stammering, I come out feeling like I've been beaten with a baseball bat...Sometimes I only...