Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Connally was cast in the role of a filibustering Southerner who feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
...Choke. SKF has plants in Paris, in Schweinfurt, Germany, and in the U.S.* The German division was larger and did more business than any others except those in Sweden. The U.S. Air Forces and the R. A. F. have battered the Paris and Schweinfurt plants heavily, may have put them out of production. Result: Germany now relies on SKF in Sweden for more than half of the bearings needed to roll the Wehrmacht's heavy arms, keep the Luftwaffe aloft. The U.S. wants that supply choked...
...complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take quick cover, each moving jerkily with a quality of loneliness in the midst of action with which no loneliness of peace is comparable...
...have lost the 42,348-ton world-cruise liner Empress of Britain in the North Atlantic and the plucky 21,517-ton Empress of Canada in the shark-infested waters off West Africa, must be rebuilt to restore prewar transatlantic and Pacific services. The airline, providing Ottawa does not choke it off entirely in favor of Canada's "chosen instrument" T.C.A., will need new planes and bases for routes extending from the U.S. border to the Arctic Circle. These improvements will cost millions, and will go far toward keeping Canadian industry busy when war orders are canceled...
Kwajalein is only one of several Marshall strongholds. But Kwajalein is in the heart of the group. Some of the other islands can be left to wither. Submarines and aircraft can choke them off and pin them down, render them useless to the enemy and no longer a threat. If it is necessary, U.S. troops can clean out enemy garrisons. Wake to the north and Nauru to the south will also have to be taken or knocked useless by air power...