Word: choke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador. In 1934, bravely suppressing a twinge of suspicion, Von Papen agreed to be Hitler's Minister to Vienna. There he tried to conquer Austria for the Nazis "peacefully," by organized sabotage and propaganda. After four years, Hitler stopped Von Papen's slow choke with the velvet glove and swung his iron fist. Although he says Hitler had promised him not to use force in Austria, Von Papen shared the "general intoxication" of the Anschluss and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Nazi Party for his efforts...
...would-be rescuers bustled about him, trying unsuccessfully to choke down their laughter, Hagerty grew red and fidgety. Guffaws pealed down White House halls. Dwight Eisenhower roared so heartily that tears trickled down his cheeks...
Allergists live in a topsy-turvy world where bread is often not the staff of life but an insidious poison, where milk can do the baby more harm than a slug of liquor, where innocent-looking eggs are the secret agents of rebellion, and where mother love can choke a child. Last week the American College of Allergists met in Chicago to hear the latest reports from topsy-turvydom...
...Hope You Choke." "The noise in here drives you bugs after a while," said his co-worker Salvatore Recupero, "but he never come off his machine to talk to anybody. He was a bandit for work." But along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting...
Finally the pressure in Peter Akulonis' head grew too great to be withstood. He sidled around the shop, eyes wild, trying to pick fights. Then he quit. "I hope you choke, you bastards," he shouted, and walked out the door. Last week, after a few days of brooding, he roused himself to go job-hunting, but after one halfhearted attempt, he began drinking instead. One Little Room. Early in the afternoon he went back to his four-room flat, picked up a carpenter's ax, walked into the bedroom and killed his wife (with a single stroke from...