Word: stutteringly
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...four and in possession of the ball with a little over a minute to play, Housman milked the clock for 10 seconds beyond the three-point line before starting his move on guard Dannie Powell. Staring down his opponent, Housman dribbled in with the right hand, gave several quick stutter-steps and pulled up from behind the arc. After the long jumper found the bottom of the net, the 1,298 fans in attendance started filing for the exits.“I was looking to drive the whole time,” Housman said...
...with because they had such a close intellectual connection which, for both Hadden and Luce, was the most important kind of connection. Each in their own way had rather awkward relationships with their friends. Luce was just quite awkward in public and always uncomfortable socially, especially because of his stutter. But Hadden had that sense of remove from people, that nobody truly got him. He was really a mystery. So the two of them were able to communicate on a higher level, and that's why I say that they were in love...
...later years of his career with vain attempts to recreate an instinctive original greatness, as many musicians do; his is the type of music that gets better as he learns things. “White Bread, Black Beer,” masterfully wraps up humor, sex, unease, and stutter-starts of musical brilliance to produce a veiled, intellectual self-portrait of one of pop’s most fascinating thinkers...
...anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands would shake violently. I'd try to talk, and I'd stutter. Before that? I was Mr. Happy Go Lucky, a kid who had everything. It was devastating to my family, to my friends. People just saw me fall apart right in front of them...
...reformer too overtly. "No gimmicks!" the Queen has told aides. "I am not an actress!" She wants the monarchy to be a focus for continuity and enduring patriotic values, which make instinctive sense to her. She was never a rebel: she venerated her father, a shy man with a stutter who was thrust into kingship by the abdication but mastered his task through hard work. During her wartime adolescence, the idea of obedience and doing one's duty for the greater good was the norm. She really meant it when she said at age 21 that "my whole life, whether...