Word: sputtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware that the Western powers would not agree to treaties that gave Russia control of central Europe, had another end in view. Molotov had come to make propaganda, mostly addressed to the Germans. The climax came on the 16th day at the table. Molotov started off with his usual sputter of accusations against the West. Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction. . . ." Then he again demanded a clear statement of Soviet policy. Said Molotov: ". . . When the time comes. . . ." Said Marshall: ". . . The time has come...
...students who work for them. Despite the decentralized nature of the hiring system all the employers of student workers appear united on one principle-there is no need for wage increase. When confronted with the economic facts of life they quickly bury their heads in the sand and sputter incomprehensibly. The facts indeed speak for themselves. Student workers deserve a raise as much as do other University employees...
Congress displayed a soggy lack of enthusiasm; the public was remarkably silent. So it seemed possible that the debate over peacetime conscription, touched off by President Truman's message to Congress (TIME, Oct. 29), might sputter out like a damp fuse in the fogs of the first postwar autumn...
Every evening he strolled back to the prisoners' stockade, locked himself in. Every morning he turned up at the cook tent, where he would cheerfully sputter the few English phrases he had learned, most of them unprintable...
...truculent sputter from the late...