Word: throated
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...hand. Trillin's narratives often leave no more than a handful of smoke. In an odd way this takes the curse off what is really voyeurism. For a dozen pages or more, the reader sees so closely that he wants to excuse himself, to clear his throat so the figures in the drama will know he is there. Then the curtain closes abruptly, and he is left to brood about why psychological insulation burned through at just such a time and place, with precisely these results...
During his trial, Vaughn testified that he was anxious and depressed over flunking out of the B-School and about his failing marriage when he put his hands over his wife's throat and squeezed...
When his wife decided to leave at about 2 p.m. according to testimony, Vaughn wiped the makeup off her face, sat on her, and put his hands around her throat. Vaughn testified that he blanked out momentarily and recovered to find her lifeless...
...curiosity about the world was too sprightly to be harnessed for the long haul. He regularly worried himself sick; hypochondria be came a lifelong pal. As a Cornell student, he was convinced that he had consumption; in his later years he noted: "I have had a frog in my throat for some time now, and of course with me this develops almost instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that is the way I'm built." He was also constructed, as this biography makes clear, to share his mastery of English syntax with countless readers, who seek...
Influenza, as opposed to the more common flu is marked by chills, high fever, muscle aching, headache and a cough, Postel said, adding, "the flu is more like a cold--a sore throat and stuffy nose...