Word: stuttering
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...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...Corroding Drop. When war came, Elizabeth Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell...
...Philip Bahn '49 and Edward F. Burke '50 won positions on this year's Harvard team in tryouts held yesterday afternoon in the Germanic Museum. John H. Stutter '52 will be an alternate...
...central part of the program suffered, for the Band was off the stage, and except for a brief triumph of the Hungry Five, a small combo that combined um-pahs with lumps and grinds things were pretty spotty. The Krokodiloes did well with "You Tell Her, I Stutter,: and "How'm I Doin'" was very good, partly because of the dancing of Mildred Blacklock. She was the high spot of the choral numbers: a consistently skillful dancer who adapted herself especially well to the cramped stage. The Cliff-Riffs of Radcliffe also sang; they were not cramped by the stage...
...taken for granted. Yet at least one part of it--the lecture system--while it may be the best available, is certainly not without its drawbacks. Why should anywhere from 30 to 400 students crowd into stuffy, hot, uncomfortable lecture rooms to hear a professor who may stutter, speak indistinctly, be ill at ease, and in general be much less effective than he could be if he were expressing his thoughts in writing rather than in speech...