Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers? Last week the Commission on Freedom of the Press cleared its throat and raised its hand...
...Democratic National Chairman was feeling rotten. Bob Hannegan recently had a lot of teeth pulled. Now he was convalescing in the Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix, with tender gums and a sore throat. The telephone rang, and added to his sufferings a headache from Washington...
While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...
...rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could win that fight. Oklahoma's cotton-loving Senator Elmer Thomas growled ominously: "OPA is cutting its own throat...