Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evangelist Marjoe Gortner told it in the movie about his life, Marjoe. His father, Vernon Gortner, 69, disagrees. "I heard constantly from him before the movie broke," he said, but when the elder Gortner saw the film, "it was all I could do to choke back tears. Now he's told so many untruths he's afraid to face me. There never was such a sum. If it was money I was after, I'd have been in another business." Why, then, the movie? "Somehow," said Gortner, "he came under the influence of Satan...
...solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
While the experts ponder, the current dilemma remains and can be read on the backs of the ever-multiplying automobiles that choke Western city streets. The license plates still brag about BIG SKY COUNTRY and LAND...
...throughout the nation are discussing ways to voice the general outrage. Massive civil disobedience in Washington is being considered. We support it. We support all reasoned actions to reverse Nixon's drastic error and bring the war to a close. As the President surrounds North Vietnam, attempting to choke off the liberation movement, it is particularly appropriate for us to surround his buildings and strangle the American war effort...
...Mormon brethren "choke" on the words Brother Anderson. And I am proud to say that I am one who does not. I have known Jack Anderson as his student and his friend for 15 years...