Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room before dinner to gossip about the day's events, then they move on to Spaatz's office for drinks around the big table with guests. Sally serves the first round, then guests do their own pouring. The General, who is usually cutting someone's throat at cribbage beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd...
...year-old native witch doctor in the mountains south of Johannesburg wanted to make rain for his people. He slit his four-year-old son's throat, then put the blood into cattle horns. He dissected the body for "rain medicine." He loved his son, he said. But that was the black man's way to make rain...
Frank Sinatra, bobbysocks Romeo, hospitalized with a bug in his throat and a temperature of 103½, was cooled off by the London Times: "Mr. Sinatra is unknown in this country and is likely to continue to remain...
...explanations for quitting after 14 years in Congress: a throat ailment, a desire to return to private law practice, "a dread of becoming a professional politician." Jubilant liberals, laborites and left-wingers thought they knew other reasons. Had he run again, Dies was in for the toughest fight of his life. Thousands of new workers had poured into the oil refineries and shipyards of Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange in Dies's war-booming Second District. The C.I.O. Political Action Committee, privately taking credit for the defeat of the No. 2 Dies Committeeman, Joe Starnes, in Alabama a fortnight...
...these were good reasons for Dies to step down, but they did not make his throat ailment a phony alibi. Friends say he has a growth in his larynx that may require a Mayo Clinic operation...