Word: throated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...husband made sure she could not afford even that strand of camouflage. Ted ambushed Dana (not their real names) as she walked from her car to a crafts store in Denver. Slashing with a knife, Ted, a pharmaceutical scientist, lopped off Dana's ponytail, then grabbed her throat, adding a fresh layer of bruises to her neck...
Moche pottery often depicted scenes of naked captives being sacrificed by having their throat cut. An imposing figure with an enormous crescent-shaped ornament on his conical helmet and large discs in his ears is ever present. From a goblet he drinks the blood of murdered prisoners. Scholars had speculated that these were mythical representations, but imposing regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest...
...next morning we were marched to a highway intersection for selection," recalls Elezovic. "The men, women and children, and old people were separated. A man pushing a stroller with his one-year-old son in it was pulled to the side. They put a vicious dog up to his throat. We could see his insides spilling out. Then he was taken to a garage and shot...
...that O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco over to his ex- wife's town house, donned a pair of gloves, confronted her and a man he at least thought was her boyfriend, inflicted "multiple sharp force injuries and stab wounds" (the coroner's report) on both and slit her throat to boot. Two deaths. Premeditated. Gruesome. No obvious complicating or mitigating circumstances...
...short answer, say doctors: no way. While the streptococcus bacterium is very common -- it causes the strep throat that everyone catches sooner or later -- the publicized cases involve a deadly variant of the germ that is rare. Up to 15,000 people come down with invasive Group A strep every year, and perhaps 3,000 die. The infection is easily treatable, though, if caught early. Moreover, the microbe has been around for years, and no one thinks it will suddenly cause a pandemic...