Word: throatedly
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...live poultry for a finder's fee of about 60?. She leads her customers to a back alley where a woman in a baseball cap opens several plastic bags, revealing four live chickens. For $2.50, the woman?who refuses to give her name?grabs a bird and slits its throat, letting the blood drain onto a tray. "It's only sick chickens that are dangerous," she says. "This one is alive, so it's O.K." (Not true: infected birds can sometimes spread the disease before showing symptoms...
Terror Tactics THE NETHERLANDS In a procedural hearing in the case against Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, judges were told that Bouyeri twice ignored Van Gogh's pleas for mercy. Prosecutors said that Bouyeri first shot Van Gogh dead, then slit his throat, and that the gruesome slaying was intended to terrify the Dutch population. Bouyeri, who faces charges ranging from murder to impeding democracy, waived his right to attend the court. His trial is expected to start before the summer...
...course, objections to the TSA policy need to address the opposing perspective, summed up nicely by a poster in response to the NYT story: “Cry me a river. I don’t want to have to be trying to rip a terrorists [sic] throat out at 35K feet because she didn’t want to be touched.” Hero complex aside, this view would seem to be logically correct; after all, isn’t being groped a small price to pay for the security of the American People? Except we?...
...this happen?? demands ?Bush?s Brain.?) They attempted to demolish the opposition?s arguments and actions with news clips and expert rebuttal. To prove this isn?t just partisan nit-picking but a matter of mortal consequence, the anti-Bush films went simultaneously for the heart and the throat, depicting the casualties of war: interviews with the families of U.S. soldiers - or, in the case of ?Control Room,? Iraqi civilians - killed during the invasion and occupation. (Taking a cue from the enemy, ?Fahrenhype? also had interviews with soldiers back from Iraq. They said they were honored to have served their...
...film: when Cristina asserts towards the end, “though your acceptance will thrill me—it won’t define me. I am my mother’s daughter,” a lump the size of a best screenwriting Oscar wells up in your throat...