Word: throating
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...sickness which forced him to retire was a throat ailment which rendered him barely able to speak. Even after his retirement an office was maintained for him in Lehman Hall, and he continued to walk around the Yard and to keep up his contacts with the University which he had served so long...
...unhappy situation of a reduced income had to be faced; no one has denied that. What was denied, first by the Teachers' Union, then by the Student Union, and finally by the Student Council, was that a flat ten per cent budget cut should be slammed down the throat of every Department in the University, with only the pious admonition to "injure educational standards as little as possible." According to the report, the tutorial system is being rapidly de-emphasied by the effects of the cut, and a Harvard education may become a watery sort of thing, at least...
...American way of life, one citizen doesn't try to force his personal way of life down another citizen's throat. I hope that this nation will not try to force its way of life on other nations under pretext of defending it, instead of letting other nations come around to it if they will...
...Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...
...Republican National Committee got a bill for $13,000 from Dr. Harold Draeggert Barnard, Beverly Hills throat specialist, for services rendered. The services: doctoring the husky campaigning throat of Wendell Willkie for 52 days last September and October...