Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...
Died. Robert Hutchings Goddard, 62, wartime chief of Navy research on jet-propelled planes and first man to fire a liquid-fueled rocket (in 1926), a principle which the Germans adapted for their ¥2; after a throat operation; in Baltimore. Rocketeer Goddard once set a peacetime ambition for his invention:"I believe that a rocket . . . will some day successfully reach one of the planets...
...bony hands trembled as he unrolled a six-page scroll, but his voice held firm as he read: "History will show the evils from which I saved France.... Each day, with a dagger at my throat, I had to battle the demands of the enemy. ... I surrendered nothing essential. . . . My actions sustained France. I assured France of la vie et le pain (life and bread). ... I prepared the road to liberation...
...first fig tree of New Castile had just borne fruit. When the enemies he had left alive conspired against him, he invited them to his palace for half a dozen figs and some friendly advice. The rebels answered the invitation by breaking into his house and cutting his throat...