Word: choking
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...lobbyist of A. G. & E.. testified that he had talked with Mr. Hopson by telephone four days earlier but did not known his whereabouts. "Mr. Hopson is not a well man. I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." "If you knew where he was would you tell the committee?" "Well. I don't believe I would." "Then we will ask you. Do you know where...
...curving incision was made into the front of her neck. By lifting the flap of skin, the surgeon exposed the thyroid gland lying around the windpipe, excised almost all of it. He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms. Final step in the thyroidectomy was to bring the edges of the divided skin of the patient's throat together so neatly that each layer butts exactly against its companion layer...
...self-reproof. He looked long at the picture on his desk, and then his gaze wandered guiltily to his book, now abandoned on the floor. Again he stood at the window, but this time he saw nothing. He took in great gulps of the sweet air, trying to choke himself on the scents of Spring...
...when settlement on 7,000 tons of pepper falls due. These 7,000 tons they had bought on paper in anticipation of a price rise. Instead of higher prices, they were given the sickening news that a shipment of 6,500 tons of pepper was on its way to choke the London market, bringing stocks on hand up to 20.000 tons against 1,950 last year...
...Nazi Germany did ebullient Miss Steele have things to reveal. Wrote she to friends in Texas: "A Princess Bagnatiov - former ruler of Georgia [Russia] - called on me and gave me the lowdown on what is developing in Japan and Russia. Right now Japan has surrounded Russia and will slowly choke her to death by pressing in from all sides. She is going to give me valuable information about the situation...