Word: throatedly
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...shocked, his watery eyes bulging and mouth gaping like a trout, and still Zalathal did not stop. Felicity charged over her husband. She heard the triumphant crunch of bone, the satisfying curtailment of her husband’s prayer as Zalathal’s powerful hoofs crushed his throat...
...this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real...
...season is still about a month away, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) wants Americans to get vaccinated now. There's no cure for the influenza virus, which in its worldwide perambulations can mutate from a simple runny nose-and-sore-throat to a fatal illness. Each year, 36,000 Americans die from the flu, but thanks to National Influenza Vaccination Week and a record number of available doses, maybe this year will be better...
...were struggling furiously. Roxanna had succeeded in pulling off half of Felicity’s dress but had still not managed to free herself. When Frederick finally burst through the door, Felicity was straddling Roxanna. Her hands grasped at the poor girl’s throat. Roxanna writhed beneath her, shrieking.Momentarily stunned, Frederick finally recovered and inserted himself between the two women. “Enough!” he shouted. “Enough!” He pulled Felicity off Roxanna and cradled the chambermaid in his arms. Felicity, undaunted, launched herself at Frederick’s back...
...extremists. In 2004, filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was brutally murdered after producing the documentary “Submission,” which detailed the culture of subjugation of Muslim women. After shooting Van Gogh repeatedly, his killer, a young Muslim, stabbed a letter through the filmmaker’s throat “in the name of Allah.” The letter called for the murder of Van Gogh’s co-producer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch Parliamentarian and former refugee. Hirsi Ali was forced to spend the next several years in hiding until she moved...