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Word: chokingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the ruins of the Great Gods' shrine. The most famous relic, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which stood on the bow of a marble ship heading toward the sea, had been removed to the Louvre, but marble fragments of the shrine's buildings still choke a narrow valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...grew more and more emotional. He seems to have a special tie to most of the 48 states--such as Arkansas, where he was born; Tennessee, his wife's state; and Wisconsin, his legal residence. But the Massachusetts papers reported his "eyes again misted and his voice became so choked with emotion he was seen to swallow and choke back his words." "I feel at last that I have indeed come home...This was the greatest ever...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...grew more and more emotional. He seems to have a special tie to most of the 48 states--such as Arkansas, where he was born; Tennessee, his wife's state; and Wisconsin, his legal residence. But the Massachusetts papers reported his "eyes again misted and his voice became so choked with emotion he was seen to swallow and choke back his words." "I feel at last that I have indeed come home...This was the greatest ever...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...grew more and more emotional. He seems to have a special tie to most of the 48 states--such as Arkansas, where he was born; Tennessee, his wife's state; and Wisconsin, his legal residence. But the Massachusetts papers reported his "eyes again misted and his voice became so choked with emotion he was seen to swallow and choke back his words." "I feel at last that I have indeed come home...This was the greatest ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

...department, tried to guard against every emergency. His trucks became hospitals on wheels with baby-delivery kits, oxygen masks, resuscitators, inhalators, iron lungs, ether masks, surgical gowns and sterile sheets. But Fields, a onetime Navy fire-fighting instructor, still fretted over occasional cases in which he had seen people choke to death while his crews probed blindly for something in the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rattle in the Throat | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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