Word: throatedly
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...Heat rinsed over face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees and feet. She lay with shut eyes, the sun flaming through her lids. She reached out for leaves to put over her eyes. The sun filled her body like a ripening pear...
...term. Charged with contempt of Congress for walking out on the Kefauver crime committee last March, he based his defense on the contentions that i) television hearings are unconstitutional (rejected by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan), and 2) his doctors had warned him of danger to his chronic sore throat (an arrested cancer) if he testified. The doctors were put on the stand. Both said they had told Costello he could testify...
...years of specializing in nose & throat troubles, Philadelphia's Dr. Matthew S. Ersner had seen only one previous case. If it had not been for an alert doctor who spotted the trouble when she was born, Andrea Sinai's chances of surviving would have been slim-she might have choked on her first bottle. As it was, she had to be fed with a medicine dropper. Often she choked and started to turn blue. Her mother hardly ever knew a good night's sleep; she kept waking to hear the reassurance of the child's raucous...
...this he was a fine seaman and a cool and capable officer. Some of his crew could remember how he had reacted four years ago when one of his "black gang" was found on the deck spouting blood from knife wounds in the throat and arms. There was no anesthetic on board, but the sweating Carlsen stitched the fainting victim's throat, sewed up two arteries, sprinkled the wounds with sulfa powder, and saved his life. Carlsen then grabbed the would-be murderer, got a confession, and went back to the bridge as if nothing had happened...
...Regular. When the curtain went up, Stage Director Lunt himself pranced out in maroon livery and powdered wig. He cleared his throat commandingly, waved a couple of latecomers to their seats, then went through the stage business of lighting a row of electric footlights with a taper, all to great applause...