Word: throating
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...horse-loving Pat Nash, who got rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...
This was the extent of Nazi influence on Japanese fighting. The Germans did not ram anything down Yamashita's throat. He asked for advice. Intelligently he sought a better way. Flexibly he applied it. In his ability to learn the lessons of a quick war quickly, Tomoyuki Yamashita proved himself a very good soldier...
Margaret was No. 3. The neighbors heard her black Scottie howling incessantly, mournfully in the blackout. When police arrived, they found Margaret dead, with a stocking around her throat. Like the other two, she had been strangled and slashed with a knife or a razor...
Treatments. In Omaha, firemen driving a nine-year-old girl to a hospital to have a piece of candy removed from her throat went over a bump, which did the trick. In the same city a doctor pulled down a ten-year-old boy's eyelid preparatory to operating for the removal of a b.b. shot. The shot rolled...
...Bataan the dust is thick. It fills the eyes and throat. Men and officers along the way all like to talk. The big item is guessing when help will come. Nailed to a tree in one headquarters was a big calendar with a picture of a full-rigged sailing ship. Under it someone had written sardonically: 'We told you so, help...