Word: gullet
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...eyes of Peter Giachino, a gunner of Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...
...Chicago restaurant, Gerald Bodine clutched his throat, loudly demanded the manager, swore that something he had eaten was stuck in his gullet. An x-ray revealed a brad lodged below the tonsils. After an operation to remove the brad, Gerald Bodine put in a damage claim. An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins...
Honest people sometimes develop throat pouches. The gullet muscles weaken, sag. Such diverticula may be very annoying. They interfere with eating. Food catches in them like waste in the trap of a sink, ferments and sends up fetid odors...
...esophagoscope, like Dr. Jackson's famed bronchoscope, is essentially a narrow-bored tube. The bronchoscope goes down the windpipe into the lungs. The esophagoscope goes down the gullet. Dr. Jackson developed both after he got the initial idea from two German professors. They derived their method from sword-swallowers. Jugglers learned long, long ago that by throwing their heads far back and depressing their tongues, their opened mouths were brought into a direct line with their straightened gullets. By getting his patients to do the same, the late Dr. Alfred Kirstein found that he could see far down...
Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...