Word: throated
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...even to obligatory scenes like the one in which he must face his officemates decked out in a plum-colored suit, mod haircut and hip new manner. Nodding his head to an imaginary cool beat, he has the odd, rueful grace of a stork with something caught in its throat, and we can almost believe, that a young girl's heart would indeed...
When the passengers are turned upside down, as in the double spiral of the Python at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fla., the old saw "My heart was in my throat" is hardly appropriate: the feet are where the throat ought to be. As for the heart -it is on its own. Most unnerving of all are the giant loops on such rides as the Screamin' Demon at Kings Island, the Turn of the Century at Great America near San Francisco, and King Kobra at Richmond's Kings Dominion...
...base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat...
...time, a neighbor's son, 6, develops several large reddish rings on his skin. His temperature rises, and within days a swelling in the boy's left knee leaves him virtually immobilized. A short distance away, a robust man, 26, suddenly finds himself battling a nagging sore throat, a stiff neck and total fatigue. Before long, he feels excruciating aches in his shoulders, wrists, elbows, fingers and toes...
...wait...and finally in comes the head coach. He tells you it's all there, that you have the tools you need to win the game, and all that's needed to take the game is the effort, the heart, the will; the pressure is on and the throat gets dry and then its "go get 'em" and you're running out to the field...