Word: throatedly
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...because underneath your jeans and headband, you realize you're no different from that woman whom you regard with such moral condescension. It's not just being a newspaper reporter. You're an interloper and you know it. When you start to talk again, the words stick in your throat-because you feel you have no right being there. You throat loosens when he asks what's wrong and your talk goes on. With every question you feel more and more like a leach, more and more like a nag, a peeping tom, looking where you know you have...
...Cough is a protective reflex; its severity should be diminished, but when there are copious secretions, it should not be suppressed by large doses of an antitussive agent." In most cases, the best remedy is an old-fashioned regimen of warm drinks and steam inhalation. Beyond that, "the familiar throat-tickling irritation can often be relieved by a candy drop...
...From the wit within his throat...
...report, they are only slightly more susceptible to lung cancer than nonsmokers. But pipe smokers can develop cancer of the mouth or lip. Many pipe puffers and cigar chompers do draw smoke down as far as the larynx. As a result, their chances of developing cancer of the throat are three to seven times greater than those of people who avoid smoking of any kind...
...long ago, a white sergeant caught a black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...