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Joel W. Garrett, a patron of the bar, accused customer Joseph W. Squires of making lewd gestures toward his girlfriend, then a waitress at the Spaghetti Club. Garrett wrote that he responded by "talking with my hands" and grabbing Squires' throat...
...Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia, Lindy Chamberlain reported seeing her nine-week-old baby Azaria taken by a dingo, a wild Australian dog. The baby's body was never recovered. Based upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie A Cry in the Dark, with Meryl Streep playing Chamberlain...
...muscles in the esophagus and throat needed for swallowing are extremely important, as weak muscles may lead to choking or vomiting...
...even more deadly by loading them with radioactive iodine and other toxins. Infused into a patient's bloodstream by the millions, they become biological torpedoes that home in on clusters of malignant cells, blasting them with killer rays. Almost overnight, it seemed, cancer could become as curable as strep throat...
...season of ennui and loathing. Pundits exhausted their thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous. Ordinary folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was depicted as a Darwinian descent from the triumphantly upright Franklin Roosevelt on down to an invertebrate Clinton-Dole level just above the primordial scum...