Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Kiyose managed to croak out the words to open the session, all remaining Socialists and 27 members of Kishi's own Liberal-Democratic Party stalked out. Nonetheless, shortly after midnight, the House finally got around to passing the treaty by a standing vote. Then the 259 Liberal-Democrats present (quorum needed: 156) raised three throaty banzais and adjourned...
...lakeside ranch 20 miles southwest of Havana, the croak of 500,000 bullfrogs filled the air last week, and the reek of tanning frogskins drifted up from a row of concrete tanks. Ohio-born Major William Morgan, 32, kept 120 workers hopping by barking over short-wave radio such orders as: "Slaughter 10,000 more bulls!" Morgan, the highest ranking of the Americans who served with Fidel Castro in Castro's rebellion, is carving out a new career supplying U.S. restaurants with frogs' legs...