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Issue 3, the Piscataway, N.J., civil-rights settlement (in which civil-rights groups paid off a fired white teacher to avoid a potentially unfavorable Supreme Court ruling), also sputtered on the shows.
That the debates sputtered rather than sizzled wasn't Lehrer's fault.
It's "an upside-down argument to think that NATO or we have made this get worse," sputtered U.S.
But surely, Chatterbox sputtered, you must have read Johnson's article.
" 'Because there is no Wednesday on the Japanese calendar,' said Encyclopedia Brown, as Taylor sputtered with rage.