Word: windedness
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The dream no longer disturbs Jack Romagna's repose. After 20 years as the White House shorthand reporter, dealing with everything from Franklin D. Roosevelt's stutter (in search of the right word) to John F. Kennedy's burp-gun Boston twang. Romagna is reasonably confident that...
Truth v. Charity. The ambush was done skillfully: one anonymous paragrapher wrote slyly that a reader "has been for several days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters" of Hawkins' book. The implication is unjust; Hawkins is long-winded but not dangerously sedative, and even...
Fussy and long-winded, Eichmann had irritated his defense lawyer, Robert Servatius and three judges of the Israeli court. Loquaciously he had told (though nobody asked him) how his functions had grown to include confiscation of Jewish property and deciding which Jews were hostile to Germany. Affidavits from six former...
"Stalemen of the graduate treadmill," "youngsters winded in their twenties," the typical graduate student at Harvard emerges in Cunliffe's account a tired, harassed, nervous, ineffectual, resigned, passive bedbug.
"Terrible equivocation . . . pious religious jargon . . . long-winded double-talk . . ." With these epithets an Episcopal minister defied the rules of his church and sprayed scorn upon his bishops' attempt to guide their faithful.