Word: stammerings
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...first crisis since the election. Newsmen had been filled in minute by minute as they flew back to Washington, but one inevitably sought detail was missing from the intimate picture. What did the baby look like? Pierre Emil Salinger. Kennedy's press secretary, seemed slightly flustered, could only stammer: "Aw, it looks like a baby ... It has some hair . . . The hair is dark . . . I'm very poor at descriptions of children...
...read all the books he could cart away from the Workmen's Institute, overcame a stammer by reciting Shakespeare to anyone who would listen, and at 21 was sent by his fellow miners to London's Central Labor College. The school's militant motto: "Educate, Agitate, Organize...
...brother, Emir Mohammed, he does not see what others see. Hussein remembers only the terrified child crouching in the palace to escape the sporadic rampages of his father.*To the King, that is excuse enough for the behavior of the crown prince, who has suffered from a crippling stammer ever since. But when others look upon Mohammed, they see something else-a tyrannical egocentric in a major general's uniform, and an ever present danger to the throne...
...Soloists. Born Nevil Shute Norway in the London suburb of Baling on Jan. 17, 1899, the future novelist was the second son of a postal official who turned vacations on the Continent into competent travel books. Like another famed storyteller, Somerset Maugham, the boy suffered from an agonizing stammer. Sensitive Nevil played hooky, haunting the London Science Museum with its glass-encased models of the pioneering planes of Blériot and the Wright brothers. At the end of World War I, he entered Oxford as an engineering major. Young Norway was an indifferent student but a line engineer...
...charge against William J. Korpa in San Francisco Municipal Court was battery: he had beaten up two youths at a beach party. A husky 18-year-old with a stammer, Korpa had been in trouble with the police since he was 13, and his record, Judge Andrew J. Eyman felt, showed that "most of the usual avenues of rehabilitation had failed." Yet the court was reluctant to send the boy to jail, instead put him on two years' probation and added two conditions: 1) no drinking, and 2) attend church every Sunday...