Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afterwards I figured he was trying to get my lifejacket. Then, I don't know what I figured, except to get away from him. The lifejacket was tied right at my throat. The Japanese kept clawing at my throat, trying to choke and scratch me. He tried to gouge my eyes out, and he dug his nails into my cheek...
Last week there were signs that Admiral Doenitz, newly upped to command of all Hitler's naval forces, may fear a bold attempt to seize the coast of Brittany, smash the submarines at their source, just as Allied air raids on Germany have attempted to choke off submarine construction. German broadcasts announced that civilians had been ordered out of Brest and Lorient. From Brest alone the evacuation of 22,000 nonessential civilians already was under...
...When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...
Patently, since his only hope of winning the war is to choke the Allies' flow of supplies, Hitler was throwing his strength and all his ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
...than Bendix Aviation Corp., suppliers of nearly 150 high-precision parts for every big Army bomber. Last week Bendix officials faced an other big time-consuming job: to answer a civil suit filed by Thurman Arnold's Anti-Trust Division in the New Jersey courts, charging conspiracy to choke competition and peg prices in aircraft accessories...