Word: stammering
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Blood rushes to my face as I stammer. "Me? Oh, I ehm... worked...
Blood rushes to my face and I stammer. "Me? Oh, I ehm...worked...
...subject of his past, the Stammers' lodger was reticent. "He always denied that he had committed any crimes," Stammer said. He did, however, tell her once that the Germans had wanted to eliminate the Jews because they were like a disease on the national body politic...
Pedro had the rough, callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the West, written by Oswald Spengler. For the most part, Stammer reported, her guest remained quiet. "Sometimes," she recalled, "he went out of the house for six, seven hours at a time. I think he just went walking." The Stammers finally separated themselves from their increasingly unwanted guest in 1974. Moving...
...twelve, Gerhard had become a member of the Hitler Youth and later boasted of being a committed Nazi. Nonetheless, in the Austrian town of Graz last week, Gerhard's 26-year- old son Adolf firmly rejected the stories told of his father by the Bosserts and Gitta Stammer. "It's easy to put the blame on my dead father," he said. In fact, he continued, he himself knew nothing of Dr. Mengele, and could not "even remember a single unmarried man who would have visited our parents while we were in Brazil...