Word: larynxed
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...mild barbiturate) to quiet the nerves. Ribbing has a refinement: an injection of the same preparation for victims too far gone to swallow. But the drugs (which are dangerous and should be taken only by a doctor's prescription) are not much help after a victim gets his larynx between his teeth; they work best as a preventive. Partly psychological in effect, they help queasy travelers face the coming ordeal with mild bravado...
...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...
This cured me of: sinus, headaches, constipation, insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, nervousness, poor appetite, palsy of the larynx, sore eyes, nervous perspiration, chronic depression and strained human relations, to mention a few of my former disorders. But, during those four years as a psycho, I did as good a job as anyone...
...octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two octaves of tuned doorbells, an auto pump, a car motor, a Smith & Wesson .22 pistol. His ten players-nine men and a girl harpist-are proficient at making every conceivable noise capable of emerging from a human larynx...
Edgar Bergen, who is Charlie's larynx, hopes to broadcast from each governor's mansion (NBC, Sun., 8 p.m., E.S.T.). So far two more governors have proved willing-California's Earl Warren and Illinois' Dwight Green. Not yet approached: New York's Thomas E. Dewey...