Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about gambling in the St. Louis area. As they arrived, it quickly became evident that all of them were also suffering from a companion disease which one curbstone diagnostician described as Kefauveritis-"characterized by a clammy feeling, excessive perspiration, forgetfulness, a sinking sensation in the stomach and inability to utter more than a few inaudible sounds...
Time marches on. Last week Manhattanites were looking over a review of 40 years of abstract art with utter calm. Pictures by such oldtimers as John Marin, Lyonel Feininger and Joseph Stella-which once titillated the advance guard and horrified the public-now seemed familiar, almost conservative...
...shod and rag-bound foot in front of the other, at a pace that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed him off in a jeep...
...eyes and ears as completely as possible," Mao Tse-tung once wrote about the Japanese, whom, he now says, the Americans have replaced. "We want to render them blind and deaf; we want to take the heart out of their officers; we want to throw them into utter confusion, driving them insane...
...Roman Emperor (245-313 A.D.) who issued an edict fixing prices of such things as cereals, wines, meat, fruits, vegetables, leather, timber, carpets and clothing. Punishment for overcharging: death or deportation. Fate of Diocletian's program: utter failure...