Word: throating
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...Rayburn cleared his throat and spoke quietly. In the still chamber, its customary bedlam hushed, his voice came nervously, stiff with emotion. He ended...
...transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many of Winchell's some 10,000,000 column readers as might relish dignified, cruel irony of the best New Yorker grade. A few of McKelway's incisions...
Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...
Backstabbing, garroting, throat-cutting and decapitation are among the subjects taught at a progressive school of guerrilla warfare organized "somewhere in England" by Spanish Civil War Fighter Tom Wintringham and visited last week by Chicago Tribune's Guy Murchie...
After learning sentry-stalking in the Indian fashion, home-defense volunteers attending the school were taught to use a knife as the principal weapon of silent combat. Although throat-cutting was demonstrated and practiced on dummies, back-stabbing was recommended because it usually involves less noise, and a proficient stabber should be able to account for several sentries in short order. Garroting with fine piano wire was supervised by an instructor with experience in Northern India...