Word: stutters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever overcome your serious stutter...
...French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians do. Yet it's exactly Bayrou's ordinariness, his lack of privilege, that is attracting supporters - and driving the man. "I've always been sensitive...
...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...