Word: throating
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Jean Moulin, alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings...
...really enough to control Central's 10,743 miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...
Feminine Touch. In Lyons, France, bearded lady Mme. Maitre, after mislaying her safety razor, borrowed her husband's straightedge, shaved too close, cut her throat...
...sighted it carefully at me. I tried not to look, but soon I had to raise my eyes. The tip of the foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind, the messiness and the pain of death and the amazing fragility...
...fever in French Haiti. Lydia Bailey, late of Philadelphia, looked as pure and demure in her portrait (by Gilbert Stuart, of course) as only a heroine in a historical novel can look. Handsome young Albion Hamlin stared at the portrait, shivered, felt "something intimate and personal" catch at his throat. The time: 1800-05. The range: post-Revolutionary U.S., the troubled Haiti of Toussaint L'Ouverture, North Africa at the time of the Barbary Wars...