Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat...
...overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times itself is conservative, and, says Chandler, proud of it. "But no one can force anybody down anybody else's throat in this area. That's because we not only don't have, but can't have, anything resembling machine politics. If there's a bloc of votes that can be delivered in Southern California, I certainly don't know about it." Mayor Norris Poulson exerts...
...loose parallels in Deke's and Presley's careers will set off happy squeals among the juke-box brigade. Some cheer-jerking implications: Elvis was sort of born with a guitar in his hands, a Hydra-Matic shift in his hips, a fog in his throat-and he never recovered. Elvis will fight bullies only if extremely provoked because bad publicity draws standing-room-only audiences. Elvis don't drink or smoke, and he don't like girls that...
...blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...
Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history...