Word: jugulars
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Luftwaffe's pattern for bombing Great Britain began to become apparent with last week's intensive night-raiding. Around London, the prime emphases were on the city's seaward jugular, the Thames Estuary and London dock area, and on the city's western and southwestern edges...
There lie London's water-supply system, centred at Staines, and several trunk rail lines which, in the absence of an adequate motor-highway system, must feed and supply 8,600,000 people if the Thames jugular is constricted...
...ever see Mr. Hull angry. One of the few is his wife, Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, who never knows whether the fierce "Chwist!"* that comes from the bathroom in the mornings at shaving time means he has cut his jugular or is thinking of some dastardly tariff provision. Mrs. Hull, descended from an old Jewish family of Staunton, Va., is an Episcopalian, is generally regarded as the best all-around wife in the Cabinet. The Hulls have no children...
...moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust that would open Japan's military jugular if delivered...
During the timeouts, the spectators gather about the bleeding players and listen avidly while the latter form their plots as they run their fingers across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim...