Word: stammered
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...besides being a writer was a doctor and a spy, all with generous measures of success. His private life, however, was often tortured: the death of his mother when he was 8 (something he never got over), a cold upbringing in Kent by an unaffectionate uncle, a crippling stammer, a toxic marriage made against better judgment at the age of 43 and the lengths he went to to preserve a façade of conventionality to hide his homosexuality. All these created an extraordinarily complex...
Rebuilding ground zero was going to be a great show of American defiance, a Knute Rockne speech to the nation. Seven years on, though, this grand statement is barely a stammer. In an unsparing new progress report, the site's landlord admitted that every part of the project is over budget and behind schedule. It will take several months just to map out a new timeline...
...Witness George W. Bush defending the poor huddled masses against xenophobia, while the “conservative” wing of the Republican Party, a group that never met a pro-worker law they didn’t hate, speaks out for the American working class. Meanwhile, the Democrats stammer and shuffle and hope nobody notices them. Well, I guess not everybody acts out of character.The Republican split on immigration makes sense. Some Republicans get their money and support from people who like picking on immigrants and others are funded by people who like hiring them. The split between economic...
Ellen DeGeneres calls you an influence. Do you see it? I influenced Ellen, but Ellen then developed her own sound. People would say to me, "Do you stammer, or did you develop it?" That was just the way I talked. I didn't say, "There's no stammerer out there in comedy. There's an opening...
Today is tough. I can’t really look anyone in the eye. Sometimes I catch glances and when people see me they know not to talk to me, they know, they know, so I stammer around in this silence catching glances and rejecting them and out of the corner of my eye I see them nod and know. They’ve been there, too. Maybe they’re there right...