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...Surgery-rooting but polyps, or carving windows in clogged nasal passages-is often "underdone . . . not completed." Scar tissue may grow in, choke up the opening. When done thoroughly, an operation may bring great relief in breathing. But, said Dr. Grove, since there are eight nasal sinuses all told, fixing one may not cure or prevent disease in the others...
...Russians had choked the narrow isthmus with spots of defense as tightly as the Thousand Islands choke the St. Lawrence River. There was not much room for the channels of attack to flow through; crossfire covered every channel...
...doubtful whether the General realized what had happened as he surveyed his America First garden last week. While he and his advisers had been busily cultivating the young bean shoots of isolationism, the weeds had got out of hand, and threatened to choke the garden-Jew-haters, Roosevelt-haters, England-haters, Coughlinites, politicians, demagogues. The General's followers had run away with their leader. The General's firm, meaty, businesslike points (an impractical partnership . . . a squandering of wealth . . . Hitler will die some day) were still as respectably moot as ever. But the General's beans were being...
...ready to fight for democracy (see p. 13), but Hitler spoke one long sentence that sounded as if he already knew what Franklin Roosevelt would say: "When today the democratic agitators of a country to which the German people have never done any harm . . . threaten to choke the National Socialist people's State . . . with the force of their capitalistic system and of their material production, then there can be only one answer: the German people will never again experience such a year as 1918, but will rise to still higher achievements in all branches of national resistance...
...first three of these threaten Turkey. Samothrace and Lemnos can be used to choke the Dardanelles, and Mytilene lies very close to Turkey's west coast. The others threaten British shipping in the whole Aegean. Britain can have no power north of Crete now except naval power, and the occupation of these islands-and probable occupation of more later-threatens to clear Britain out of the whole region...