Word: throating
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...mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother hangs himself, Thurso gets Helen to cart him, sodden with pain, up to a sea promontory. There, in a quarry shed, she surprises him with kisses, cuts his throat. When the old mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills she used to prevent more life. The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked...
...found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney's Adam's apple. "The cartilage was pushed into my throat and lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after the excitement in the dressing room subsided, I went to a small hotel, and had several pots of tea." Tunney blames himself for becoming "the most unpopular...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
Honest people sometimes develop throat pouches. The gullet muscles weaken, sag. Such diverticula may be very annoying. They interfere with eating. Food catches in them like waste in the trap of a sink, ferments and sends up fetid odors...
...learned long, long ago that by throwing their heads far back and depressing their tongues, their opened mouths were brought into a direct line with their straightened gullets. By getting his patients to do the same, the late Dr. Alfred Kirstein found that he could see far down the throat with a small headlight. That was in 1894. Three years later Dr. Gustav Killian succeeded in safely running a metal tube into a patient's lung and peering down the bore. Just as Elias Howe perfected the sewing machine by putting the hole at the front...