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...been employed in modern times to illustrate and to symbolize this affliction. There are very sound psychological and biological reasons why the legs should be affected by the relations between a man and his parents, which is the essence, superficially, of the Oedipus situation. The King's stammer is also relevant here, especially in connection with the right foot...
...arrived in San Francisco. On the dock to greet her were Army officials, civic dignitaries, and a crowd of 300 veterans who remembered Joey. Bands played the Philippine national anthem. An Air Force plane waited to fly her to Carville. With her arms full of flowers, Joey could only stammer: "This more than I expected...
Next day, two detectives escorted Teacher Margaret Jokiel to Fort Hamilton High School. She had no idea which of her 165 pupils could have wanted to shoot at her ("They all seem O.K. to me"). After the math exam, the detectives began questioning the kids. One boy could only stammer his answers. Questioned further, he admitted that he had not signed his own name to his test paper: he was taking the examination for a friend...
...doctors have many objections to the new act. Basically, they fear complete state control of medicine. And the doctors do not trust Bevan. In medical terms, he is a "corrected sinistral": left-handed as a child, he developed a stammer when elders forced him to be righthanded. He cured the stammer, relapses only when he is excited; but the doctors think that his politics move steadily leftward...
...nervous yawn started by Steelman floated around the table. Mason at last introduced Sir Frederick with a reference to "the fog about the two FBIs." Sir Frederick, in a high-pitched stammer, replied with some verse that praised Queen Elizabeth for having "stayed in town while London Bridge was falling down." Then, shifting from one foot to the other, he spoke of international trade as "the one thread from which the fabric of peace and security in the world must be woven...