Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greedily attempting to feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon the water in all stages of decomposition. . . . Captured birds, removed...
...national government. But what he and Washington fear are stealing and crockery down the line among the hordes of minor officials far removed from his office. To catch such greedy sinners he has organized a Bureau of Investigation under Louis Russell Glavis whose job it will be to choke graft in its tracks wherever found. Emergence. When Harold Ickes went to Washington on March 4 the general public marveled at his name, wondered who he was. Today, after four months, he has emerged as one of President Roosevelt's closest and most trusted advisers. "My forebears lived...
...resolved to continue the so-called "Stimson Doctrine" of nonrecognition of Manchukuo; and 2) Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was said to have cabled warnings that if the League fails to deal with Japan, China may declare in desperation a boycott so sweeping as to choke off not only Japanese but also other foreign exports to China...
...undivulged dictatorial plan in his battered head and his right ear tilted up as if listening to the guiding voice of the Angel Gabriel, he calls his Cabinet, starts weeding out unwilling tools. Unlike other dictators he resolutely refuses to use Federal troops for civil duty, to choke off a press which unanimously howls against him. When an ousted Secretary of War leagues with a third-rate Vice President to have him committed to an insane asylum, he explodes the conspiracy by broadcasting its details. Secretly he sponsors an incendiary cinema, propaganda picturing the Chicago massacre, deliberately designed to bring...
When Chicago gave the world the phrase "public enemy," gangsters used to ride around in Rolls-Royces. They carried rolls of bills big enough to choke a judge and got buried in $10,000 caskets, with effigies of themselves done in flowers to follow the hearse. Bootlegging, chief source of gangdom's income, was a national business of the first magnitude. Like other businesses, bootlegging has felt the pinch...