Word: throating
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...Editor Jack Lait put a finger on one trouble with postwar journalism. "The emphasis on 'leads' . . . seems to have largely evaporated," he wrote. "In my journalistic salad days reporters sweated to create dramatic, amusing or literary leads ... It was a problem of clutching the reader by the throat, quick, and giving it to him while his eyes bulged...
...show what he meant, Mirror Editor Lait clutched his readers by the throat in the first paragraph of a spicy divorce story...
...pressing problem to three surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
...important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...
...fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...