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...greeted the news of David Kennedy's apparently drug-related death [NATION, May 7] with contempt. My disdain gave way to a lump in my throat after reading your report. Sirhan Sirhan has murdered again...
Lieut. Edward Tidrick was hit in the throat when he jumped into the water. Another bullet hit him as he lay on the beach. He gasped out a last command: "Advance with the wire cutters!" There were no wire cutters; they had been lost in the blood-streaked water...
...Book of Common Prayer. Nor is the reader reassured when this most confident of stylists lodges herself as an extraneous character in the book, discussing narrative ploys that she has considered and rejected and alerting the reader to real or imagined difficulties ahead. This process is known as throat clearing, and Didion, with her clarity and candor, has no need...
...widow of General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega. My husband's throat was not slashed as you say. He was tortured for hours until he died, an act in which Astorga was an active participant. She is a murderess. Her nomination as the ambassador from Nicaragua is evidence of the type of leaders that form the Communist Sandinista government...
...boldly declaring, "America needs a President who has the courage and the leadership to say no to powerful lobbies that want bailouts... to powerful unions that want legislation that will shut off trade." Later, in Lubbock, he proclaimed, "We must have the courage to take change by the throat...