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Word: stammerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since mid-1998, the company has grown from one online store to more than a dozen, and from 1,100 to more than 5,000 love-it-or-leave-it, multitasking nomads. Ask the average Amazon employee for his or her business card. He will stammer and pat his pockets, explaining that, well, his number changed; she has a new job title; their group just moved; the new cards aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Does your dad [William F. Buckley Jr.] stammer like that at home, or is it totally affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Buckley | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...stammer, the gestures, he practices those in the greenroom before going on TV every time. A media adviser told him when he was very young that he needed more affectation. He's been very diligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Buckley | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...friends didn't know why I read both EW and The New York Review because I hadn't told them. I had taken their questions as indications to blush and stammer instead of to share what is, in a sense, a part of my personality. I had failed to learn the first lesson of Harvard diversity: There can be no understanding if the thing to be understood is never mentioned...

Author: By Dehn W. Gilmore, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...this was apparently accomplished without any assistance from the Mexican authorities (although some would say that's hardly a change) -- Reno and Rubin told their Mexican counterparts about the sting only on Monday -- leaving red-faced Mexican officials to stammer about how laundering drug money was not "an institutional practice of Mexican banks." Of course not. Thanks, amigos, for all your help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drug Money | 5/19/1998 | See Source »

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