Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling the way I had imagined him: The subject was not absolutely calm. To his own excitement was added the tense quivering grip of the Marshal--the sense of breathing mountain air had hardly abated: his lungs seemed to take in oxygen with a thin edge, his throat burned...
...turned as red as a crayfish, opening his eyes wide, and his beautiful fingers rubbed his throat and face. The emotion seemed to stimulate a sense of the colors in him, and he muttered in comprehensible words between his clenched teeth...
...number of ways, Bri and Sheila are British cousins of Virginia Woolf's George and Martha. Like George, Bri is a teacher; like Martha, Sheila has been promiscuous and may still be. Along with an abrasively ironic war of words, both couples play games of cut-throat tomfoolery. At play's end, Bri tries to kill Joe-a child who is almost as mythical as the imaginary son in Woolf-and when that fails, he leaves his wife. An original in its own right, Joe Egg owes no dramatic debt to Albee's masterly play-yet both...
Then Blaiberg hit some snags. When he developed a sore throat, his doctors were relieved to find no evidence of bacterial infection. They decided that a virus was to blame and prescribed a simple gargle. Next, too much fluid accumulated in the sac around Blaiberg's new heart, as may happen after cardiac surgery of any type. This necessitated puncturing the sac to drain it. After that, Blaiberg said he felt much better, and the doctors felt confident enough to reduce his already moderate doses of immunosuppressive drugs...
...That would mean putting out a paper much like the one envisioned by the New York Times before it gave up the idea. As one Daily News editor puts it: "The Times's biggest problem was that by aiming at the quality market it was cutting its own throat." The News does not face that dilemma...