Word: jugulars
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...Jugular. Respected and persuasive colleagues have pressed the President to take me antithetical course. Johnson told of a telephone call from a Congressman last week that went this...
Congressman: Mr. President, you've got to resume the bombing. You've got to win this thing now. You've got to go for the jugular. I urge you to turn this war over to your military commanders...
...hauled away with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just as he got there, a machine-gun slug caught him in the jugular vein. He bled to death three feet inside West Berlin-the 65th person known to have been slain at the Wall...
...life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them to the African honey badger, the meanest animal in the world: "It does not go for the jugular-it goes for the groin...
...duct of Silastic (trade name for medical silicones made by Michigan's Dow Corning Corp.) is 18 in. to 24 in. long, only 1/16-in. thick. It is led under the skin, behind the ear and down the neck to a point where it is spliced into the internal jugular vein. The excess brain fluid is thus dripped into the bloodstream, where the body readily disposes of it. Another Silastic preparation, which looks like a sheet of waxed paper, serves to correct a different type of brain problem: when part of the brain's parchmentlike covering, the dura mater...