Word: throated
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...itself, sadistic and without cause. Some machete-wielding fighters specialized in the franela cut, in which the victim's head was sheared from his body with an incision resembling the circular neckline of a flannel undershirt; others preferred the cor bat a -one slice across the throat, through which the victim's tongue was pulled, to look like a necktie. With the grim slogan of "Leave no seed," children were murdered, men emasculated, pregnant women cut open...
...first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head to foot, his nostrils sucking in at a polyethylene laundry...
...horn of Africa, a man would cut a throat for a camel. Since Somalia won its independence in 1960, throats have been cut in plenty as lithe, black, spear-swinging Somali nomads crossed with their herds into neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia to fight over water rights and grazing lands. Last week the cost of a camel was approximately war, and blood spilled on the horn...
...Cuba remains the bone in the U.S. throat. The U.S. is committed to a relatively inactive policy of trying to isolate Castro from foreign trade. The embargo is not working perfectly by any means, for Britain recently made a trade deal with the Communist dictator. And last week while Castro was in Moscow, a new Soviet-Cuban trade agreement was announced. In return for the favor, Castro promised to sign the atomic test ban treaty. All the while, he continues to try to export his revolution to other Latin American countries...
...burning temperature of the cigarette (1112 to 1472 degrees Fahrenheit), and it is carried into the lungs by attaching itself to the inhaled smoke particles, according to the report's findings. Most of it is eventually taken up by "scavenger cells" and carried over the bronchial lining to the throat...