Word: gullet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German editors last week reminded their readers that agents of Der Konsul were once not only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
...sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King Zog's coronation last year, only the expressed intention of genuine Scanderbeg descendants to slit Zog's royal gullet dissuaded the new King from adopting the title of Scanderbeg...
...trachea, or breathing tube), and (in back) the esophagus or food tube. In eating or drinking the epiglottis, a saddle-shaped piece of cartilage at the root of the tongue, flaps down to cover the larynx and windpipe. The term "throat" includes fauces and pharynx; the term "gullet" includes pharynx and esophagus.† 5,685 U. S. cases reported last week...
...beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress of digestion...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...