Word: jugulars
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...Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein...
...Correspondent Hunt, "students were drinking pale Pilsener beer, as calmly as if they were about to attend a lecture on philosophy." The duelists faced each other, "formal as bride and groom marching to the altar, but far less nervous." Like disciplined gamecocks they stood, a black scarf about each jugular, a pad about each middle. To make the maiming cleanly, each blade was swabbed with antiseptic...
...headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases were reported here headsmen had been persuaded to save the life of the condemned by making a large, gory slanting slice, which appeared to be fatal but which avoided the jugular vein and spinal column...
...school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
...bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...