Word: utterness
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...porticoed town hall, Peter Harmon asserts that he has a knack not only for finding water but also for stranger things, like out-of-the-body trips. "I've been to the moon," he announces with utter solemnity. Then, before a skeptical visitor can mutter "Really?" Harmon explains that he once encountered a moon-walking NASA astronaut at a meeting. "The fellow said to me, 'My gosh, didn't I meet you somewhere before?' " Harmon chuckles. But the apostle of science, shaking his head, does not laugh. Because Harmon clearly believes his own story...
...chapel with evening prayer. As the staff members retired, they told John Paul of the fatal ambush of a Communist youth by right-wing extremists in Rome. "They kill each other ?even the young people," he lamented. They were the last words anyone would hear him utter...
...just how many of the Soviets accompanying Anatoly Karpov, 27, the slim, intense defending champion from Leningrad, were actually intelligence agents. The chief of the Russian group, Victor Baturinsky, an ex-KGB colonel who heads the Soviet Chess Federation, was surely not saying-and would scarcely let Karpov utter a word either. "We are here to play chess, not to talk," he scowled to newsmen. "Even in the Soviet Union, we have to hide him from being bothered...
...designer Liviu Ciulei has erected a high mesh screen across the middle of Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. All scenes of institutional ritual occur behind it. Before it is a leafy ground of freedom where the high school children escape to their for bidden trysts and utter the long and some times lustrous thoughts of youth...
That seems a rather blithe overstatement: a tough budget-cutting policy will in fact arouse furious opposition. And "model economy" is a phrase so reminiscent of the naive expansiveness of the mid-1960s that hardly anyone else in Washington would dare utter it. But it sounds natural coming from Miller; self-assurance is as marked a strain in his character as his relaxed informality. At Textron he peppered fellow executives with what they called "Millerisms," such as "Don't rationalize mediocrity" and "There is no penalty for overachievement." Miller set an example by rising meteorically to become the company...