Word: throatedly
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...Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...
When black-haired Carolina was nine years old, she saw her father commit a murder. "Father was squabbling in the kitchen one night with a stranger," she remembers. "I heard them and went to look. On the kitchen floor I saw a man with his throat cut and his head all bloody. I hurried back...
...determine the history and pattern of disease. But, as much as anything, they would like John Paul Jones's kidneys for their famed medical museum, there to rest alongside such other patriotic exhibits as a lock of Lincoln's hair, a slide of U.S. Grant's throat cancer, sections of vertebrae (complete with bullet holes) of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and of assassinated President James A. Garfield...
...wrong, but Treece at least tunes his legend to the barbaric realities of 6th century Britain, with its Saxon seawolf marauders, its roving robber bands, its shattered relics of the Pax Romana, its poor riven land where man's hand was at his neighbor's pocket or throat...
Warning Bells. For 1,000 francs ($3) a year dues, Poujade offered cash benefits in the form of taxes unpaid, coupled with a mutual insurance system to prevent reprisals because of mob action against inspectors. "I talked until my throat was so sore that I was spitting blood," says Poujade. In its first year, Poujade's Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans (UDCA) organized 500 ''oppositions" to tax collectors, recruited priests to ring church bells as warnings of inspectors approaching. When delinquent taxpayers were seized, Poujade packed the auctions to buy back their belongings...