Word: throatedly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Shortly after the first incident, the victim was robbed again as he continued walking down Cambridge Street. After asking the victim for a cigarette, a male approached the victim from behind and put a knife to the victim’s throat, demanding his money...
...drive, open a door or carry a newspaper without calling attention to himself. Survival depends on meticulously relearning to live everyday life in his strange new state, eating where his digestive processes will go unobserved, slipping into clubs and unoccupied apartments for sleep, never so much as clearing his throat at the wrong moment. "This," he reflects dryly, "was shaping up as a solitary sort of existence...
...efforts by the court to right social wrongs, whether by busing students to foster desegregation or banning the execution of people under age 18. Would he "humbly" respect those earlier decisions or overturn them as examples of judicial excess? When he talked about the lump he gets in his throat as he walks up the court's marble steps, it suggested he is not interested in burning the place down. But the tone of some early memos, like one in which he approved of Education Secretary Bill Bennett's attacks on the court for its "hostility to religion," suggests...
...land late in the evening in a city where you know nobody. You did not have time to book a hotel, your luggage has not turned up on the carousel--and the plane's air conditioning gave you a sore throat. What...
When Roberts spoke last week of the lump in his throat whenever he climbed the marble stairs, it rang true to anyone who had ever watched him in action. And it would match the history and mystery of the court if it turned out that Roberts ultimately alienates conservatives and not those who fear any Republican appointee. Roberts may agree in spirit with those who see the past 50 years of jurisprudence as too expansive and too intrusive but respect too much the way the law is shaped to ride in and blowtorch it. He may just prove willing...