Word: uh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stood at complete and unmilitary ease behind the lectern on the stage of the State Department auditorium. In cool and well-punctuated sentences, with never an uh or an er, he recited fact after fact, figure after figure, in response to the blunt questions of newsmen...
...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
...wasn't what he wanted to be at all. He studied Gary's walk and he studied Gary's talk, but he might as well have tried to take the BMT to England. "Yonduh," he solemnly stated in one tale of old Baghdad, "lies duh castle uh duh Caliph, my fahduh...
...Uh yes, I suppose that's what I mean. What are their chances for success...
...uh-de-doodah...