Word: throatedly
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...claim that smoking a particular brand "is beneficial to health in any respect," or "nonirritating." Nor would they imply that a brand's ingredients, method of manufacture, length, added filter, etc., reduce nicotine, coal tars and resins unless scientifically proved. The ads would not refer to the "throat, larynx, lungs, nose, or any other part of the body," or to "digestion, energy, nerves or doctors...
Duilio Marcante led a group of divers below with floral offerings. He came up white-faced. Said he: "There was a lump in my throat so bad I could hardly breathe and I didn't think I'd ever manage to get to the bottom with my carnations. Then I saw the statue down there. It was truly moving. I shall never forget...
...Slip. In Atlantic City, N.J., Mrs. Mary Clark, 39, pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness, explained that she followed her dentist's advice and gargled with whisky to deaden the pain, "but some must have spilled down my throat...
Ordinarily, the Sultan rides outside the palace walls to cut the ram's throat.* The new Sultan prudently preferred the safety of a mosque inside the palace grounds. Carefully, he thrust his knife into the animal's throat, then stood back while the carcass was placed on a jeep and rushed off to the palace. The tradition is that if the sacrificial sheep arrives at the palace alive, the land will be blessed. A few minutes later came word from the palace: "The animal arrived still breathing...
...They were] not in bed, but leaning over a book . . . of accounts. Monsieur Willy was holding a pencil. I could feel my heart beating in my throat, and the two lovers looked with astonishment at this young pale girl from the provinces . . . What could I say? The little dark woman . . . held her scissors in her hand and waited for a word, a gesture, before she leapt at my face...