Word: quavering
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...contrary, the President at times was drawn and pale; lines of tension creased his face, and he seemed barely able to control the quaver in his voice. The source of strain was his continuing Watergate woes, particularly his staffs inability to explain how a mysterious hum obliterated 18 minutes of his conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate breakin. Even close White House aides conceded that the gap on the tape had seriously damaged his efforts to restore public confidence. Said one assistant...
...company sat quietly, absorbing the lines. "Quite a poem to have your grandmother read you," someone remarked, and someone else nodded piously. "I know a poem like that," the drunken student repeated and as everyone stared at him in amazement, he began to quaver a song...