Word: throatedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford, too, reached new heights of spirit and crowd appeal in the last days of the long campaign, though he had to nurse his ailing throat with everything from cough lozenges to hot chicken soup. As he pleaded with a large audience in Philadelphia to "confirm me with your votes now just as you confirmed me with your prayers in August of 1974," Ford visibly impressed his listeners. On election eve, the President flew back to Grand Rapids to vote. Perhaps it was the emotion welling up from the huge welcoming throng, perhaps it was the memories of his youth...
...gang of self-proclaimed "anti- Communists" kidnaped Brazilian Bishop Adriano Hypolito on Sept. 22, poured liquor down his throat, painted his body with red dye and dumped him, naked, on a back street in outlying Rio de Janeiro. For good measure the thugs blew up his car in front of the Brazilian hi- erarchy's offices...
Dapper's mentality is like that of any good Roxbury Memorial High football lineman: he sees himself pitted against the world, fighting hard. "When I get someone by the fuckin' throat, I never let go." But to whites with a Boston accent and preferably a blue-collar background, he can be crudely pleasant, almost charismatic. Extremely friendly and accessible. O'Neil is as close to a Ralph Cramden as he is to an Archie Bunker...
...granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what if you also knew that this seemingly benign old gentleman is armed with a foot long knife, hidden in a metal wrist ornament, which he is capable of flicking out and slitting someone's throat with in a matter of seconds...
...tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump in his throat as big as a hardball . . . he remembered how Casey had always said Billy would someday manage the Yankees...