Word: throating
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...Professor Waldo Quigley, Traveling Representative, Payson and Clarke. The World's Finest Organs. Also Sheet Music and Song Books." "How many reeds in a Payson and Clarke [organ]?" Jess asked him. "Forty-eight, Brother Birdwell," replied Professor Quigley, "not counting the tuba mirabilis. . . . Those reeds duplicate the human throat. They got timbre," he added ("landing on the French word the way a hen lands on the water"). "How many stops?" asked Jess. "Eight," said the professor. "And that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child in it. Did you ever lose a child, Brother Birdwell...
Then old Major cleared his throat and taught his followers a song, "a stirring tune, something between Clementine and La Cucuracha," which the animals found as moving as some people find Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation...
...Throat and Backbone. Turkey was defiant. Recalling earlier Russian demands in Armenia and at the Dardanelles, General Kiazim Kara Bekir said Turks would fight for every inch. He added: "The world must know that the Straits form the throat of the Turkish nation and the Kars Plateau its backbone." The Turkish National Assembly at once voted his army more funds...
French sculptor Apelles Fenosa set out to tell, with one human figure, the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. He molded a statue of a woman knee-deep in fire; her throat seemed to swell with a scream; her arms were lifted. Fenosa's Oradour will shortly be placed in a square in Limoges-the town near Oradour's seared site...
...said Winston Churchill, "is always either at your throat or at your feet." Definitely at the Allies' feet when they invaded Germany, "the Hun" last week showed signs of getting up again...