Word: throating
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...Willkie, another forthright politician. My respect for him was great enough when he cut his own political throat by speaking for his sincere convictions; convictions, incidentally, with which I agree in a large measure...
...amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
When he is concentrating on something, which is often, Crerar clears his throat with a series of rasping half-coughs. This habit has convinced him that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops...
...play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...Then, in the deepening darkness, the battle of the dinosaurs began-Germany leaped at the throat of Russia. The cigar chewer had never been a friend of totalitarianism in any form. Now he spoke to the world over the air: "Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler...