Word: choking
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...wife declares that the choke collars draped around the necks of the full-maned youths surrounding Anne Ford [June 30] carry medallions with current and potential financial ratings for future easy reference. I say that these appendages are merely decorative come-ons and denote virility in lieu of antlers...
...Europe," wrote a French correspondent in his diary, "God grant that all this blood does not choke...
...time was 1938 and the place Madrid. By the numbers of the dead alone (600,000 on both sides), the Spanish Civil War might have been enough to choke Europe in a more civilized century; but it proved to be only an hors d'oeuvre for World War II. It was also a war in which the issues, decided and undecided, were stated with some clarity. It had its own political and moral ambiguities, but it lacked the elements of grand tragic farce of World War II, in which the West was forced into alliance with one monster...
...operation of a new smelting process that could open a new era for the steel industry. It could also lead to the quick building of a steel industry in underdeveloped countries. The smeltery is designed to take low-grade ores, contaminated ores, and ores so fine that they would choke a blast furnace, and produce iron so pure that it can be turned into steel in half the usual time...
...personality, is a matter of the temperature of the heart. Smith is a bit frosty; displays of emotion make him visibly uncomfortable. Sam Rayburn, in contrast, is a sentimentalist, a man of strong and easily stirred feelings, who unashamedly weeps in public when moved. Men who were there still choke up when they recall Rayburn's anguished speech in the House on the death of his old friend Alben Barkley, the speech that ended, "God comfort his loved ones. God comfort me." The difference carries over into politics. Judge Smith (he was a state circuit judge before...