Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto's rough, tough Maple Leafs, known as hockey's bad men, had no corner on rowdiness. The Detroit Red Wings, no sissies themselves, met them whack for whack two weeks ago. Last week, with the two teams neck & neck (or throat to throat) for the National Hockey League lead, 13,284 Torontonians turned out to see another battle of bashed heads...
...with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam Pasha told a TIME correspondent: "When you are living among rogues and they are going to cut your throat, you will find a revolver somewhere. You'll buy it or steal...
Miss West lights up the darkness of this trial with fierce flashes of observation. But none is so shocking as the reaction of Joyce when he heard the word "hanging" casually mentioned in court. By an unconscious reflex, he raised his hand and with his finger touched his throat...
Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...
...October with the kidnaping of a young girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...