Word: throating
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...carefully. It was a simple operation. But the child hacked, coughed, gasped-inhaled seeping blood into her lungs. She died, suffocated. Dr. Morris Smith, at the operating table, snatched a hypodermic syringe loaded with adrenalin (potent cardiac stimulant), shot the drug into her heart. Oxygen was pumped down her throat. After eight minutes of death she breathed again. The heart worked. She lives...
...Cotton-Textile Institute, whose idealized aim is to make trade researches and surveys of commercial problems and to prepare for the mobilization of the industry in national emergencies. Its practical purpose is to overcome "the lack of co-operation which has led to fatal price cutting and cut-throat competition." It purports specifically to exclude from its activities legislative and political questions such as tariff and labor problems...
...playwrights, the actors, the producers, and the press solidly favor the citizens' Jury. They feel that by this method only can the clammy fingers of legal censorship be kept from the throat of the drama. With the exception of determined radicals these same forces feel that some honest and clear-headed curb is necessary...
...girl from home who wants to be a singer in the city?this tale is often told. In this case the home-town doctor has hypnotized her into believing she cannot sing ?after a throat operation. He of course wanted to marry her. In the closing moments of the play she recovers both voice and balance, bursts into song, and everybody is content. Dorothy Francis, once of the Chicago Opera Company, favors with the unusual combination of an actress and a voice...
...through fog banks and snow. Ice had been forming on the Norge's rigging and gondola, thence the engine vibration shook it loose in big pieces. The pieces were dropping on the whizzing propellers, to be batted viciously into the gas bag. As a hog will cut its throat swimming, the soaring Norge was perforating her own belly. The crew swarmed everywhere applying patches...