Word: throating
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After the Japs took all the men away to parts unknown, Katharine "stood doing nothing, for there was nothing to do. . . . She felt for something to stand on, but there was nothing. She was a prisoner. She cleared her throat and tried to smile. . . . 'I'm waiting,' she said. 'I guess I'll have to wait. I am waiting for the time when we are free...
...Clendening had a Pickwickian zest for life.* But bad health and zest do not go together. Last week Health Expert Clendening, 60, convinced that his own health was getting bad, cut his throat...
...Seventeen had serious dust injury to their eyes, one man died of dust in his respiratory tract, three others were made very ill by it. In addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...
...have contracted any of the following diseases: athlete's foot, scurvy, beriberi, housemaid's knee, ringworm, malaria, St. Vitus' dance, bubonic plague, cold, sore throat, sore back, body odor or halitosis...
Telephones rang incessantly in the Latin Embassies in Washington. Ambassadors called ambassadors. Counselors called counselors. "How do you feel?" they asked. "Is your Government sending bicarbonate to kill the taste of that meal?" "Yes, it comes up my throat." "Exactly. Mine too. Like onions...