Word: throating
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...neither as stirring nor as plain as Winston Churchill's words, which always have enough tabasco in them to remind Americans that Winnie is half-American himself. Nevertheless, though Lord Halifax was obviously not the kind of man who ever could or ever would quite clear his throat of British phlegm, by last week the U. S. had begun to appreciate British understatement, of which the Ambassador was a 6 ft. 5 embodiment. Observed Lord Halifax: "Therefore it must be our aim in the present war to convince the people of Germany that these traditional ambitions and methods...
Forest Gillum, 56, of Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, "He just reached the end of his resistance...
...child seems to have a bad cold. He coughs & sneezes, his nose runs, so do his eyes. He is feverish. His neck is swollen, throat sore, tongue furry. At this point an experienced parent or doctor will suspect measles. After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows...
...Saint-Just ("for Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb"); Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...
...crowd surged back, then forward. A taxi driver named Leonard Weisberg leaped on the prone gunman. He grabbed for the revolver, missed. Esposito jerked it back a few inches, fired again. Weisberg, clutching his throat, gasping for breath, fell to the sidewalk...