Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
Whereas people with other types of mental disorder try to sink to an infantile level, or to an animal or vegetative level, the semantic dementia cases try to find utter disintegration, nonlife. But, not recognizing their deep urge to self-destruction, they practically never commit forthright suicide...
When the president of the Youth Congress showed up in the Senate committee room on Saturday morning to present a "brief" in opposition to the Lease-Lend bill, he was escorted to the door before he could utter more than a half sentence. Why the action was taken was left unexplained by Senator George, the head of the Committee. When other members of the Youth Congress present at the hearing applauded their president's departing squawks, they were threatened with a similar fate, and walked out on their own accord. When Senator Clark stood up for their right to peaceful...
...tables. We'd die if we had to wash our own mess kits. In fact we don't even have mess kits, all we have to do is eat. The plates, hotel china, are washed by cooks in the automatic dishwashers. . . . Honestly one cannot possibly exaggerate the utter comfort we have...
...with special supersonic recorders. In finding out what prevents bat crackups, the scientists did not mutilate the creatures, used blindfolds, ear plugs, mouth gags. Last week Galambos & Griffin reported that the pitch of the bat signal is around 50,000 vibrations a second.* Flying in free space, the bats utter about 25 cries a second. Near an obstacle the rate shoots...