Word: stuttered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's Name. Precisely at 11 a.m. the King and Queen entered and seated themselves on the newly gilded thrones, the Queen's a little smaller than the King's. Heralds, kings-of-arms and pursuivants grouped themselves about. In a clear voice, with his stutter scarcely noticeable, the King read the Speech from the Throne. It was one of the most remarkable speeches ever uttered by any King. Written and repeatedly revised by Prime Minister Attlee, it proclaimed in the King's name (his private views are never proclaimed) the first steps in the Socialist...
...great Boston preacher like Dr. William Channing or Edward Everett Hale. He made the boy read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...
Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...
...friends noticed soon afterward that he had lost his stutter, surmised that the facial wound had cured...
They soon found him. In the rainy darkness isolated machine guns began to stutter. Six or eight miles away in the inland Mubo area, Australian jungle fighters had begun to deploy their patrols toward the shore. Two days later they joined forces with the Americans at Nassau...