Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a clothes hanger; a boy was struck in the back with a book-and a white motorist tried to run down two Negro children as they walked home from school. Integration was suspended, and Miss Elizabeth Burrow, half owner of the weekly Ozark Spectator, dying of throat cancer, wrote to her townspeople: "Here's a malignancy worse than my cancer, and I wouldn't swap with...
Next morning Dorothy's father sent word that she was under a doctor's care for a sore throat. Would she return to school? No one seemed to know. But Mrs. Warlick knew who had won. Warned away from the school on penalty of arrest, she announced that she was disgusted because she had so little support and was quitting as secretary-treasurer of the White Citizens' Council. Said she: "I'm ashamed of the white race...
...During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy, he said, would wait till the jury's eyes were turned from him, then raise a hand as if to rub his neck. Cheasty saw what Hoffa wanted him to see: a Hoffa thumb zipping across the throat in an unmistakable gesture of a knife slit. Translation: Hoffa's description of what could happen to Cheasty...
...going to do after you are elected, if you are elected? You have consorted with all of these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going to continue to do that if you are elected president of the international?" Hoffa cleared his throat. "I intend to conduct myself in keeping with respectability when I become president," he said. To clean up the mess, observed Chairman McClellan, peering over the rims of his glasses, "you will have to make a decided change in Hoffa...
...dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first seems to drink too much, but a Platonic relationship with Commander Towers soon settles her into the resigned-to-fate mold of the others...