Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of them, have died as bravely before-and not long before. The defense and fall of Dienbienphu raised a lump in the world's throat not because the quality of courage displayed there was unique but because Dienbienphu was set apart, catching the eye and the heart by contrast. It was geographically isolated. It was a pitched battle, one of the few in a shapeless, sceneless guerrilla war. Tactically, the defense was conducted with a coherent resolution of command; from inside Dienbienphu there came from first to last not a sign of hesitation or doubt about what...
...modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will serve in a pinch) to the hospital right away. There, the old-fashioned stomach pump is still the mainstay of treatment...
...closed meeting of the committee charged with probing the dispute, Acting Chairman Karl Mundt requested both sides to present him with formal specifications of their complaints. Joe McCarthy's precocious Counsel Roy Cohn represented his boss, who was in Arizona treating a throat infection with dry desert air. Senator McCarthy had made no charges against the Army, said Cohn, but would merely answer the Army's accusations...
Husband: "Officers, that's what I have to put up with. I say one word to the boys and she jumps on my throat . . . I'm just a dog around here, but by God, I'm a dog no longer...
That night there was a deathly stillness when Franklin turned up at the casino. Franklin sauntered over to his table, picked up the Correo Andaluz and started reading. One Alcalá cattle dealer, braver than his fellows, crossed the smoky room, cleared his throat and said: "Listen Seňor Franklino. If Plácido fails to show up another time, just let me know. I'll bring down my team of working mules from the farm. Please never do that again. It's bad for the fiesta." Franklin rose, bowed gravely and replied: "Thank you, senor...