Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death rattled in the throat of the Nazi Reich. And as the Caliban State, which Hitler had prophesied would last a thousand years, threshed and trembled in its last agonies, 80,000,000 Germans were cast into chaos...
...Parade. It was Saturday, March 24, 1945. The western Allies had launched the biggest push, the drive for Germany's throat. General "Ike" Eisenhower was moving more than a million men into action. To the broad picture of overall strategy, the First Allied Airborne Army was contributing its own ultramodern specialty: vertical envelopment of an enemy position...
...point the President's voice seemed to give way, as his throat got hoarse. He sipped water, and continued. At all times, he had to battle against the poor acoustics of the hall. Some Administration friends were disturbed at the large amount of ad-libbing, thought that, when doing so, the President's voice seemed hesitant, uncertain. Others thought the ad-libbing increased the informal, chatty air of the talk...
After the Japs took all the men away to parts unknown, Katharine "stood doing nothing, for there was nothing to do. . . . She felt for something to stand on, but there was nothing. She was a prisoner. She cleared her throat and tried to smile. . . . 'I'm waiting,' she said. 'I guess I'll have to wait. I am waiting for the time when we are free...
...Clendening had a Pickwickian zest for life.* But bad health and zest do not go together. Last week Health Expert Clendening, 60, convinced that his own health was getting bad, cut his throat...