Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny afternoon, a little old man with a bright pink face came hurrying up to the train. It was ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming...
...movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
...chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your god-damned throat." Pearson was whisked out of the restaurant by protectors while Patton was seized by the wrists. Onlookers believed that Patton had never opened the knife. He bellowed: "Yeah, I'd cut out his damned throat...
...amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
When he is concentrating on something, which is often, Crerar clears his throat with a series of rasping half-coughs. This habit has convinced him that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops...