Word: stutteringly
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From down the hall came the stutter of machine guns and the whine of planes. "Oh that's our shooting gallery," my guide said. As we entered, two enlisted men on a yeoman's holiday were firing at planes, flashed on a screen by a projector. An electrical apparatus records the hits, while the sound track blares the sounds of battle. "How are you doing?" yelled the Lieutenant. "Little rusty," the sailor yelled back, as a bomb explosion reverberated in the room...
...Insomnia Worse." Bennett was constantly in need of anodynes. He suffered torments from neuralgia, headaches, liver trouble, stomachache, boils, and a "speech chaos, not stammer, not stutter, a paralysis which . . . made him throw back his head epileptically and bite the air until release came." His most horrendous affliction was insomnia, a subject which seems to occupy more space in his diaries and letters than even his obsession with word productivity. Day after day, he noted "3¼ hours last night," "half dead with fatigue and nerve strain," "great state of exhaustion" or "no creative energy left. Insomnia worse...
...four summers of existence, the camp has brought new hope to scores of afflicted youngsters. Today they come from all over the state. Some are deaf; some have cleft palates. Some stutter so badly that they have to wave their arms, stamp their feet or fall to the floor before they can speak. One boy's vocal cords had been seared with acid. A 17-year-old farm boy had grown so afraid of speaking that he insisted on writing everything...
...remove the fear, Director Andrews and his 15-man staff have their work cut out for them. They point out that even a normal person stumbles or hesitates in his speech at the rate of five to eight times a minute, that the worst thing a stutterer can do is to try to hide his defect. Stutterers are encouraged to read aloud, to exaggerate their stutter, joke about it. Each summer they are sent out to talk to at least 200 strangers. They keep notes on how those strangers react, and are amazed to find that only...
Sculptor Reuben Nakian is a short, bristling rock of a man with a pronounced stutter and an utter inability to feel anything mildly. As a rising artist back in the '30s, he nursed a great passion for contemporary heroes. He did powerful portrait busts of some of the men around F.D.R.-Henry Wallace, Rex Tugwell, General Hugh Johnson-and modeled Babe Ruth into an eight-foot giant with the air of an arrogant Hercules. Critics admired his work, but then something happened and Nakian all but disappeared...