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...colonel, who was an American liaison officer with the Chinese Army, peeled off his gun, unbuttoned his shirt, let the sweat pour down his dusty face in tired rivulets. I peeled down to bare middle and the heat slowly settled in to choke us. The train was making about six miles an hour and the colonel was telling us about the evacuation of Hengyang...
...invasion eve Portugal finally came through, banned all shipments of tungsten ore (also called wolfram, necessary in hardening steel) to Germany. Just after invasion, Sweden agreed to choke off an important German supply source. Sweden's SKF cut total ball-bearing shipments to Germany by one fifth. The withheld fifth included practically all Swedish bearings for Nazi tanks and planes...
...recently arrived in Cairo from Bulgaria, reported that country a-seethe with discontent. Said he: "If the Russians come the Bulgarian people will meet them with flowers from the men and kisses from the women. But until the Red Army is actually there the Bulgarian pro-German Government will choke any Soviet sentiment...
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...
Boxing is the favorite entertainment of the occupation forces on Guadalcanal. Every Saturday night U.S. servicemen, New Zealanders and woolly-haired natives choke the roads to the ringside, scramble for seats in trucks parked bumper to bumper. More than an hour before the first bout, every nearby coconut tree is loaded with spectators and standing room is hard to find...