Word: stuttering
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...water heater, his garbage disposal—anything with moving parts—he could diagnose their afflictions. I tried to learn his secrets, to hear for myself the aches and pains that machines would confide in him. Whenever one of our family cars began to stutter or strain back in Pennsylvania, my Dad would call Pappaw and carry the phone out to the garage so that the doctor could listen. Pappaw often pinpointed problems just like that. One time a water pump, another time a loose fan belt—but be sure to check the coolant...
...George W. Bush, the door to the heart of Africa lies at the end of a low stone hallway opening into the Atlantic Ocean. Visiting a slave quarters on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal Tuesday, the president traced the stutter steps of countless Africans chained and herded down the narrow passage towards the "Door of No Return," the last point of land they touched before the six month sail to America...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: A position at Hogwarts with an extremely high turnover rate. This year it's Professor Quirrell, a meek, inoffensive man with a stutter--and a surprising dark side...
...dehabilitating stutter,” Lee says. “It was really difficult for me to express myself...
...When I got on stage and acted a role, I didn’t stutter,” Lee says. “The arts saved my life. Theater brought me out of my shell and made me more confident...