Word: throatedly
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...That's the kind of slit-throat warfare the Pentagon tried to prepare the public for early in the conflict. But so far there hasn't been much of it. Some planned commando infiltrations have been sabotaged by sandstorms, sleet and Taliban resistance. Bad weather caused the crash last Friday of an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter in northern Afghanistan, injuring four crewmen. U.S. F-14s blew up the wreckage of the downed helicopter to prevent its secret equipment from falling into hostile hands. Pentagon officials dismissed Taliban claims that it had shot down the helicopter and killed...
...number of them are "Takfiris," followers of an extremist Islamic ideology called Takfir wal Hijra (Anathema and Exile). That's bad news: by blending into host communities, Takfiris attempt to avoid suspicion. A French official says they come across as "regular, fun-loving guys-but they'd slit your throat or bomb your building in a second...
Anthrax has taken another life, this time in New York City. Kathy Nguyen, a 61-year-old worker at the Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in Manhattan, died early Wednesday morning, just as a new case of skin anthrax emerged in another non-postal, non-media worker. In what initially appeared to be an equally mysterious case, a 51-year-old accountant from New Jersey was diagnosed this week with cutaneous anthrax; Friday, investigators found anthrax spores in her home mailbox...
...some things never change. Again the brothers found themselves at odds with the ratings board. They had to trim one of From Hell's throat slashings in order to avoid an NC-17. They also softened, by choice, the sound effects for a scene in which the killer disembowels a woman with surgical instruments. "Every time I heard that, it bothered me," says Allen. "It sounded like a knife on the bone against the meat. It disturbed a lot of people...
...district of London’s East End. It was the first instance of a serial killer in the modern Western world, and absolutely unique because of the case’s circumstances. Each woman was “done” in the same manner (slit across the throat) and each was mutilated (organs removed) in such a way that demonstrated an intimate knowledge of human physiology, suggesting that Jack was a very well educated man—likely, one of the British upper class. The Ripper worked methodically and ruthlessly, taunting authorities with letters and sending half...