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...closed meeting of the committee charged with probing the dispute, Acting Chairman Karl Mundt requested both sides to present him with formal specifications of their complaints. Joe McCarthy's precocious Counsel Roy Cohn represented his boss, who was in Arizona treating a throat infection with dry desert air. Senator McCarthy had made no charges against the Army, said Cohn, but would merely answer the Army's accusations...
Husband: "Officers, that's what I have to put up with. I say one word to the boys and she jumps on my throat . . . I'm just a dog around here, but by God, I'm a dog no longer...
That night there was a deathly stillness when Franklin turned up at the casino. Franklin sauntered over to his table, picked up the Correo Andaluz and started reading. One Alcalá cattle dealer, braver than his fellows, crossed the smoky room, cleared his throat and said: "Listen Seňor Franklino. If Plácido fails to show up another time, just let me know. I'll bring down my team of working mules from the farm. Please never do that again. It's bad for the fiesta." Franklin rose, bowed gravely and replied: "Thank you, senor...
Since the thyroid is the key organ in metabolism, and since radioactive iodine-131 makes a beeline for the thyroid, a simple check with a scintillation counter held against the throat can show when it is overactive: an overactive thyroid removes more iodine-131 from the blood than a normal one, and this shows in a higher reading on the dial of the counter. Moreover, where the atomic cocktail test was once thought to require a second visit to the laboratory for a reading 24 hours afterward, researchers at the Navy's Radioisotope Laboratory in Bethesda, Md. now find...
...Moreau? We had a terrible row. About pacifism . . . He ended up by almost strangling me . . . Here, look at his last letter . . . Just imagine, he pinned me against a lamppost, grabbed me by the throat, while he shouted dramatically, 'I'll have you, Elisabeth, or I'll kill you!' . . . I said to him, 'Strangle me, but don't kiss...