Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists he had permitted to flourish so freely, Sihanouk told the convention, "are going to cut my throat." With a nod in the direction of both Red China and Communist North Viet Nam, he declared: "If the moment comes when we must die or be taken over by the Communists, we will accept inevitable death with the conviction that we have not betrayed our country." It was his most forthright anti-Communist speech to date. Sihanouk added: "Many countries have not believed in the mortal danger of Communism, and then, when the evidence became clear to them...
Songs of Love (Sylvia Syms; Decca). Songstress Syms attacks a few of these throat huskers (He Loves and She Loves, Hands Across the Table) with a beat so limp that she suggests a woman in search of a paycheck instead of a passion. In her better moments (Alone Too Long, Can't We Be Friends?), her foggy, appealing voice is that of a nice girl who is very, very anxious to set her boudoir in order...
...double parody of dramatic readings and Mickey Spillane utilizes an obvious talent for exaggeration. "I passed this kid sucking a lollipop. Don Brown dead, and him sucking a lollipop. I rammed it down his throat. I hate injustice...
...Twirling Dials, $40. The tariff was stiffer in Bryan, where Mrs. Keene complained of headache and stomachache. There, Naturopath Charles Moore told her she still had diphtheria toxins in her throat from a childhood attack, that she also had colitis; her spleen, pancreas and liver were not working right; she was anemic and her pulse was too slow. He sold her special foods for $9, and for the examination (done by twiddling the dials of a machine that looked like a short-wave radio) he charged...
...finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars. "Why don' you be like Rosanna?" And Gioia tells him fiercely...