Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans sure are funny people," said one of the workmen. "They'll cut each other's throat for a nickel, but when one of them gets in trouble, they'll sure get out and swamp for him." No one thought of pay. "I haven't heard the word mentioned," growled Raymond Hill, the city engineer who directed the operations...
...settles WNEW policy decisions without red tape and interoffice memos. "I love business," Tudie declares with a flutter of gestures and eyelids. "It's like a crossword puzzle. It's wonderful. And it pays so many rents." If tensions build up, she has a simple solution: "My throat swells. And I scream...
...clearly reveals the motives that led the financier on his dazzling career. Certainly it was hard to believe with the muckrakers that men of wealth were guided only by an insane desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with a supreme desire for order. The cut-throat competition of rampant industrialism which he saw after the Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here, Morgan had his chance to bring supreme order...
...that supplied Sam cut him off, and an electrician came around and took the neon beer sign out of the flyspecked windows. Somehow, it seemed, Sam had betrayed free enterprise. An organization of restaurant owners muttered that Sam might not be cutting his beer, but he was cutting his throat. The Bartenders Union threw a picket line in front of the place because it was nonunion...
...underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the pride of a gabby flagpole-sitter. He refueled himself during his performance with nothing more than two glasses of water, one glass of orange juice, seven chocolate bars and a few tablets for his throat...