Word: stuttered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every muscle in your body is relaxed ..." Most of her customers go under like sounding marlins, but occasionally one balks. "What's your name?" Pat asked an actor-in-training recently. His answer was "Toby." No, he did not believe he was hypnotized and no, he did not stutter. "What's your name?" asked Pat. "T-T-T-T-Oh, God!" said the actor...
...uncanny understanding of the persecutor as well as the persecuted. He realizes that the terrorist is vulnerable as well as brutal. He tenderly describes a nocturnal raid on a minority cemetery by young party recruits : their initiation into Nazi-type brutality. Scared and disgusted, one starts to stutter, another has an attack of diarrhea, a third gouges his eye. An orphan, reminded of his parents' grave, tears up the cemetery more ferociously than anyone else, "as though he wanted to scratch the buried bones out of the ground...
...fast but not fast enough, discreet but not discreet enough. He had served four Presidents, mastered Churchill's stutter and Eisenhower's wayward syntax, but the new tempo of the White House was not his, and last week Official Stenographer Jack Romagna was unceremoniously fired. The sacking left correspondents morosely pondering a final, unanswered question: Was Romagna's fatal mistake marking the transcript of a presidential telephone talk "From the White House swimming pool...
Asked point-blank at his press conference whether the U.S. merely supports the Nationalists or would help them recapture the Communist mainland. President Kennedy was at first reduced to an ungrammatical stutter: "Well, I'm not-I think that I'm not aware of the statement that's been made. We have not been consulted about-as I stated-in the way that the agreements would call for and that, therefore, I would think that there'd be no use in explorations of potential situations...
...dream no longer disturbs Jack Romagna's repose. After 20 years as the White House shorthand reporter, dealing with everything from Franklin D. Roosevelt's stutter (in search of the right word) to John F. Kennedy's burp-gun Boston twang. Romagna is reasonably confident that his right hand can keep pace with any presidential tongue. The pace is quickening. Roosevelt's top speaking velocity of 200 words per minute scarcely winded Romagna, who can handle up to 240 w.p.m., or four words per second. But Kennedy has been timed in bursts of 327 w.p.m. Such...