Word: throated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kona in October 1999 when a 10-ft. tiger shark came halfway out of the water and pushed him off his board. The shark's nose struck Spencer's head, then its jaws locked onto his arm. "I could almost see the whole shark. My elbow was down his throat." The shark ripped muscles, tendons and blood vessels, then chomped down on the surfboard before finally disappearing. Spencer made it to shore, and today his arm is recovering, although he still cannot grip with his hand. His mistake? Surfing at sundown...
...cheered last week as the inexorable march of network television toward live-murder broadcasts took another step forward. JUSTIN SEBIK, 26, a contestant on the CBS reality snoozefest Big Brother 2, was tossed from the show after he really wielded a butcher knife, really held it to the throat of a fellow contestant he was kissing and really asked, "Would you be mad at me if I killed you?" Both Sebik and his paramour, Krista Stegall, had apparently been drinking earlier in the evening, and it was clear that Stegall was not concerned by the proximity of the knife. Still...
EXTRADITION ORDERED. For IRA EINHORN, 61, Philadelphia fugitive who fled to France in 1981 and was convicted in absentia 12 years later of killing his girlfriend; in Champagne-Mouton, France. When told of the order, Einhorn slit his own throat, "but at the last minute, he changed his mind about dying," one of his lawyers said, and survived...
...Bordeaux region of France, Philadelphia prosecutors lost several attempts at extradition, foiled by a French claims that Einhorn?s human rights would be violated if he were forced to go to prison without a new trial. When he lost his last appeal July 12, he tried to slit his throat, but failed to inflict serious damage...
Wilson knows how to tell a story and how to twist odd sounds out of her throat, which gives the impression that the emotion is so strong it cannot be held in place by a voice or a note. Above all, she doesn't sound like a child or some jaded hussy given to parading self-denigration as a false form of honesty. In her brown beauty, she is a fully grown woman who has high command of the rhythm called swing, which can easily be defined as the sound of the pursuit of happiness...