Word: stutters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, debates are all about verbal discourse, which happen to be both Biden's foremost strength and his foremost weakness. As a boy, he had a pronounced stutter, which took years of hard work to overcome. As a young superstar Senator - elected to the country's greatest debating forum at just 29 years old - he burnished his reputation with dramatic speeches about the struggles of working-class Americans. (Speeches that Palin herself alluded to earlier this week in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, joking that she had heard them back when she was in grammar school...
...Lace. (He punctuates this theme with a performance- art piece by Hannah so bizarre it could empty movie houses quicker than a bomb threat.) Which leaves the top two stars to their own considerable resources of charm and mother wit. Redford looks terrific, and has honed his stutter-step diction into a cagey character trait. Winger, unflatteringly photographed, is still the most ingratiating of Oscar-worthy actresses. Neither deserves to be laden with this leaden souffle. Verdict on Legal Eagles: guilty of genre sabotage. Cast dismissed...
...that I have, my former fears recede into unimportance. Worrying about my stutter seems embarrassingly vain when balanced against the task before me; leaping into cleanness and beginning the next two years means sloughing off the weary distractions that might keep me from serving my future students most effectively. Like Brooke, I’m energized and motivated by the thought of my work before me. It is not a manic energy, but a steady welling that unfolds like the 14 lines of sonnet, assuring me that I can because I must...
Most psephologists believe that Labour would have won an overall majority if Brown had called a November election. That's a belief shared by the Tories, who are convinced that a later election will benefit their cause. They expect the British economy to stutter, damaging Labour's reputation and, more especially, Brown's - he was Chancellor of the Exchequer for 10 years before becoming Prime Minister, after all. They also want months rather than weeks to woo electors with vote-winning policies such as their planned changes to the inheritance tax, which would raise the threshold to 1 million pounds...
...balled fists. I would bet I’m not the only person in the College who has tasted blood in his mouth after clenching his teeth so hard during a block that made his entire head hurt. About once a month, a waitress or waiter will take my stutter as evidence of mental retardation, and proceed to treat me accordingly...