Word: throating
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...under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...
...behind to care for the most serious cases and to assist in the operating room. For a moment I couldn't see how I could choose five when I myself was not allowed to remain. So I decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest day in my 32 months in the Army...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
...student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat, with any part of Old Man River or In the Evening by the Moonlight...
...behind the lines. Men who had toiled at forced labor under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics, the "crook girls" inevitably followed the troops, to ply their trade in slatternly shacks...