Word: chokedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first three of these threaten Turkey. Samothrace and Lemnos can be used to choke the Dardanelles, and Mytilene lies very close to Turkey's west coast. The others threaten British shipping in the whole Aegean. Britain can have no power north of Crete now except naval power, and the occupation of these islands-and probable occupation of more later-threatens to clear Britain out of the whole region...
...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...
...grounds that the Southwest had no literature. He forthwith proposed a course in Life and Literature of the Southwest, "guaranteeing that we at least had life," and has been teaching it, to thousands, for years. Gripes he: "I am at war with the damned academicians who have tried to choke all that is native in my country to death...
...Administrator Rexford Tugwell's bright young men who loved to sit around the conference table waggling their Phi Beta Kappa keys. One day the colonel marched into conference, casually threw back his coat and exposed, on a heavy brass chain, a souvenir hotel key large enough to choke a horse. Last week the colonel scored another point, just as quietly...
This was practical wartime socialism with a vengeance. The Prime Minister grew testy when the Communist Party persisted last week in dropping leaflets among persons in shelters inciting them to occupy London subway stations which the Government was trying to keep clear so as not to choke the city's communications. Up to last week a British desire not to ruffle Joseph Stalin has left the Communists free to propagandize as they please, but Winston Churchill had squads of Scotland Yarders raid Communist Party headquarters, confiscate Red handbills...