Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touring novelist settled back for the onslaught. Would he talk about Steinbeck? "I'd rather die." J. D. Salinger? "He had an appalling effect on my children." Is there any hope for the U.S.? "If I didn't believe in America, I'd cut my throat tonight." Finally Steinbeck exploded: "Is there any way I can pry the tops off your heads to see what you are thinking...
Pulsed Beam. Working in an all but echoless 10-ft. by 13-ft. room lined with sound-absorbing wedges of glass fiber, Lockheed's scientists have set up a sort of searchlight with a sound generator in its throat. The researcher sits in a chair, covers his eyes with a blindfold and presses a button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that...
Unfortunately illness and injuries have depleted the ranks of its regulars, resulting in a new lineup. Badly bruised Bill Pfeiffer, who was essential in Crimson lineouts, will not be able to play. Injured ankles, chipped heel bones, and strep throat have incapacitated several other valuable ruggers...
...such thing since 1876, when one Adelbert Ames resigned under fire in his Reconstruction regime. In most elections since then the G.O.P. has either put up no candidate or furnished merely token opposition. About all the winner of a Democratic gubernatorial primary had to do was clear his throat and start polishing his inaugural speech...
...running deer all terror and loveliness, the men and the dogs all grinning the same blank, murderous, animal grin. Then all at once the deer collapses. Blood in their eyes, the men and the dogs fall upon it together. They snarl and they slaver, they tear at its throat. Smeared scarlet, Squire Western screams, and out of the melee of blood and teeth he lifts in triumph suddenly the mild disastrous head...