Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite her mysterious ailment, Sandy grew strong. But after every swallow of food, says her mother, there was an agonizing wait to see whether she would start to choke...
...patients owe their lives to the oxyhemograph. One blue baby was saved by quick administration of oxygen when the chart showed a sudden dangerous lowering of blood oxygen. The other patient was having an operation on his knee when he swallowed his tongue and started to choke. The chart gave warning in time. The machine has proved especially useful in long operations and in all operations on the heart. It can tell the surgeon, even before he sews up the incision, whether an operation on the heart of a blue baby is a success or a failure...
...Canadian-built Canadair planes were unsafe. He attacked the government-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the Liberals' monetary policy. George Drew's main theme was that the Liberals were stifling free enterprise and that Canada's third party, the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), would choke it off completely...
...fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...