Word: stuttering
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...Juliett The pronouncing alphabet worked out by the armed services of the U.S., Britain & Canada in World War II gave many a foreign pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec...
...Queen Mother was sending refreshments to members of the opposition camped out in the Majlis building. He was not only going to resign, said Mossadegh; he was going to make a speech informing the people of Iran that the court is against him. Caught unprepared, Ala could only stutter his remonstrances: but-but really, the Shah, whatever his private misgivings, had publicly backed Mossadegh's every move, and the Queen Mother's influence on politics was almost...
There are few public relations men who stutter. Only one cured himself and then relapsed so that people would listen to him more carefully. He is Commander William J. Lederer, Nieman Fellow and Chief of the Magazine and Book Division of Navy Public Information...
About a year ago, Builder Sam Berger set out to change the face of Scarsdale. Berger was modern. His new houses were colonial ranch types and they looked fine, but they also looked just alike. On Scarsdale's matrons, driving by, they produced the effect of a visual stutter...
...pronouncement had had one instant effect. Other Oxonians, including a batch of other Rhodes scholars, dashed to their desks to compose retorts for the next week's issue of I sis. It looked as though the year was off to a splendid start, with enough to sparkle and stutter about all through Michaelmas term...