Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...three main kinds of leucemia: 1) chronic myelogenous leucemia; 2) chronic lymphatic leucemia; 3) acute leucemia. In the chronic myelogenous type the marrow, which produces blood cells, is most affected. Certain white blood cells are produced in exorbitant numbers. They hamper the production of red blood cells and choke off those which manage to get into the blood stream. Result is that the leucemia victim grows anemic, dies. The same bedside picture follows chronic lymphatic leucemia. But here the lymph system is in a rage of activity and smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive...
...have the ultimate effect of intensifying the question of the open door in Chine. Japan, like Germany, will be forced into the position of a nation against whom all the principal markets of the world are closed, but unlike Germany prostrate, will not be in such circumstances as to choke down here wrath as best she may. In short, the possibility of idle looms in Osaka will undoubtedly prove a more potent force in bringing about a quick showdown as to Japan's real Oriental policy than any amount of diplomatic dickering can reveal...
...Athens last week Greek newsboys pattering down the streets brought news to cause swarthy citizens to choke over their sweet coffee and baklava. In flaring headlines the newspaper Hestia claimed that during a riotous local election Italian carabinieri had swept down on the little village of Salacos on the Island of Rhodes firing volleys into the unarmed villagers. Planes from the Italian base on Leros had bombed the town. Ten were killed, at least 30 wounded...