Word: stuttering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is not history as the historian writes it but war as every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans of the dying...
Birds. With 8,000 barnyard birds clucking & crowing, with poultry experts from 61 nations present, H. R. H. the Duke of York opened the World Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...
...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...