Word: throat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't. John Garner does not want to fight with the President-not if he can help it. For the Party's sake he wants no open rupture. And as an old deerhunter he knows that you don't cut a buck's throat until it quits thrashing. Franklin Roosevelt is still much alive and kicking...
...York's professionally loud Hamilton Fish cried: "A dagger at the throat of Japan!" Wisconsin's Stephen Bolles said: "A small kumquat in the hand of Japan...
Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...
...Harcourt, Brace ($5). *Argyrol was the first silver compound found strong enough to kill gonococci without injuring delicate membranes of eyes, nose, throat, bladder. Many hospitals still use it to protect the eyes of newborn babies against blindness caused by gonorrhea. † Others: The French Primitives & Their Forms, The Art of Henri Matisse, The Art of Renoir...
...army and navy officers, G-men, and policemen how to disarm a man, and the numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever to twist across the throat. "Without these jackets, the jiu-jitsu man hasn't a chance with a regular wrestler," Pat declared...