Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise! In Coventry, England, the Rev. Eric Appleby was able to forgive his wife for bending over his chair, covering his eyes, kissing him, simultaneously slitting his throat with a razor...
...very limited supply of KR has permitted, clinical tests have also been made on human cancers (i.e., where the growths were not so large that their dissolution would cause malfunctions). One inoperable throat cancer, Drs. Roskin & Kluyeva report, disappeared in two weeks. In an unspecified number of other cases KR "reduced" or partially destroyed cancer. But a lot more evidence is needed, the doctors admit, before the usefulness of KR can be safely evaluated...
Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...
...point is," writes Clifford, "we were split. The front wasn't just dented, it was punched right through. . . . How can you think you have any offensive when you are reeling back with two Panzer armies at your throat? . . . Montgomery made a plan, carried it through and the battle was won. There is no getting away from that. Happily, there is no need for us to fling any mud back. The Americans were magnificent. . . . Monty says without qualification that the battle of the Ardennes was won primarily by the staunch fighting qualities of the American soldier...
...tells the story of a phony spiritualist who, in the midst of a seance she has rigged, finds a cold hand clutching at her throat. The audience never finds out if her assailant is mortal or ectoplasmic, but it sees a first-rate flagellation and a ghostly murder before the curtain rings down. Every word of Menotti's English libretto had the merit of being understandable, and some of the atmospheric horror music was more blood-curdling than Puccini...