Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character, but then he plays the part with complete conviction and a transcendent vulgarity. Outstanding example: When a woman turns him down, he gives her a long, level look that would boil ice, and says: "If you knew what you was throwin' away, you'd cut your throat...
...would be chaotic with labor raids and wide-spread strikes. The real victim would then be the national economy. Meany and the leaders of the AFL must decide then, either to take these risks and expel the Teamsters or play a waiting game and let Hoffa cut his own throat...
...Throat smears of six patients at Stillman have shown that four of them have type A influenza. "Asian flu" is one of the varieties of influenza classified as type...
...daughter's wedding ("I got there by the skin of my teeth, thank God"). His wife Mildred, who had been keeping "the radio blaring so I'll know whether they've lynched him," noticed that he had lost weight, that his collars were loose around his throat. She noticed something else: when Roman Catholic Ronald Davies knelt for prayer at his bedside, as he has done every night of his life, he remained on his knees longer than usual...
...witty Irish literateur, the "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" of James Joyce's Ulysses, proclaimed (by Irish critics and himself) the world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman...