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...tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump in his throat as big as a hardball . . . he remembered how Casey had always said Billy would someday manage the Yankees...
...moderator could toss a coin to see who starts off and then let them go at each other." Adds Journalism Professor Edward P. Bassett of the University of Southern California: "All that's needed is an interlocutor who can keep them at each other's throat." But another panelist, New Yorker Correspondent Elizabeth Drew, disagrees. Says she: "At least we had the opportunity to inject reality. I don't think it would be too good to have Ford saying, 'Jimmy, is it true you want to increase spending to the sky?' Or Carter asking...
...court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick, a suburban New York mixed-doubles player, remembers that once while playing with a woman, not his wife, he inadvertently cleared his throat. "Now don't you start in," she said, turning on him. "This is as bad as playing with my husband...
...adds his own million-dollar magic trick: he carries a band in his larynx - or so it seems when Jarreau fills in the melody with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold On). But Jarreau is no mere sound effects man. His husky tenor is agile and warmly appealing...
...specialists in defense, diplomacy or Congress, rather than those who focus on the big picture. Jack Anderson, who minds Drew Pearson's store, still deals successfully in the tattletales of disgruntled bureaucrats. But he no longer has an exclusive franchise, ever since the archtattler of them all, Deep Throat, told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers, the best is George F. Will, who thinks cleanly and writes with irony. Others stand out for special qualities and interests, though these assets become debits when they get Johnny One Note about them, as Tom Wicker does with his angry Southern passion...