Word: chokes
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...hardest to protect the empire from unionism, yet when he lost he was the first to advise Old Henry to sign up. In his long role as guardian, squat, flint-hard, bow-tied Mr. Bennett (he never wore a four-in-hand for fear someone would use it to choke him) was shot at, beaten up and stoned (see cut). He took all this as part of his watchdog job, relaxed by painting in oils, never questioned anything which Mr. Ford wanted done. He saw no reason to question. Said he: "I believe in the things that Mr. Ford wants...
...last week in a Supreme Court decision. The case grew out of the refusal of the Associated Press to sell an A.P. membership to Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. The court, by a 5-to-3 vote, found the great A.P. guilty of helping its member papers to choke off ambitious rivals...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
...week long the State Department tried hard to choke down its disappointment...
...dream," that the rates were much too low. They pointed out that CAB opens hearings Sept. 18 on applications of some dozen other U.S. airlines and steamship lines for Latin American routes to cut into Pan Am's virtual monopoly; that Operator Trippe may be merely trying to choke them off before the hearings even start...