Word: stuttered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Whenever Esther visited Tim and his new wife, Laura, this season, she could see the pressure of playing for Man U causing an increase in his Tourette's symptoms. The moment Tim got home from practice, he'd start throwing his head back, blinking his eyes faster, doing a stutter step. During games, Howard says, his concentration is so fierce that Tourette's rarely surfaces. But in the locker room beforehand, his tics - minor compared with many Tourette's sufferers' - multiply. He won't take medicine to control them; he won't risk even a slight dulling of the reflexes...
...John had a speech impediment. He had a terrible stutter, to the point where it was very difficult for him to speak sometimes, and difficult to lecture. But when he would start to tell a story, or a joke—the more risqué the better—he lost his stutter,” Bossert said...
...water heater, his garbage disposal—anything with moving parts—he could diagnose their afflictions. I tried to learn his secrets, to hear for myself the aches and pains that machines would confide in him. Whenever one of our family cars began to stutter or strain back in Pennsylvania, my Dad would call Pappaw and carry the phone out to the garage so that the doctor could listen. Pappaw often pinpointed problems just like that. One time a water pump, another time a loose fan belt—but be sure to check the coolant...
...George W. Bush, the door to the heart of Africa lies at the end of a low stone hallway opening into the Atlantic Ocean. Visiting a slave quarters on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal Tuesday, the president traced the stutter steps of countless Africans chained and herded down the narrow passage towards the "Door of No Return," the last point of land they touched before the six month sail to America...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: A position at Hogwarts with an extremely high turnover rate. This year it's Professor Quirrell, a meek, inoffensive man with a stutter--and a surprising dark side...