Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hirohito's car moved through the streets of Tokyo. At the gates of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. guards presented arms. Two U.S. officers escorted him to the huge, dark-paneled, cream-trimmed living room, where General MacArthur was waiting. MacArthur, who wore a ribbonless shirt open at the throat, shook hands and said, "Good morning...
Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific...
...greatly expedited by encouraging construction to the limit, since the building industry normally accounts for about 5% of the total U.S. employment. And high production would in turn create so much competition that any contractor who let prices get out of hand would just be cutting his own throat...
...Doctors and dentists with 80 points, or who are 48 years old, or who joined up before Pearl Harbor, can get out immediately unless they are in certain specialties (eye, ear, nose & throat work, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry, etc.). These specialists (except those who enlisted before 1941) will have to stay in until the Army lets them go. All other doctors who have enough points can be kept in after December 15 only with their consent...
Pink-faced, burly Burl has been on location for eight weeks at Kanab, Utah. In a rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...