Word: throatedly
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Pediatricians in & around Washington had been concerned in recent summers over an "unknown" illness which had broken out among children. Symptoms: sudden and high fever, small blisters in the throat, occasional loss of appetite, vomiting, convulsions and prostration, head-and stomachache. Dr. R. J. Huebner and other doctors hunted high & low in medical literature for description of such a disease but found none. Deciding it was a new one, they prepared to report it in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Truman's better way: "You remember when you had a sore throat how the inside of your throat looked and felt; well, the same sort of condition exists farther down in your chest...
...ticking. "What's that?" quavered the other boy. Up to that time, Jack had assumed that everybody ticked- but he told his parents about it. In 1946, his parents took him to a medical convention, where he was examined by a score or more of ear-nose-throat specialists; they found out what made Jack tick...
...periodic (and apparently harmless) muscle spasm in the soft palate, at the top of his throat. The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside. The specialists assured themselves that the muscle twitch in Jack's throat, which they could see, was perfectly synchronized with the tick, which they could hear...
...committee had caught Costello in a clear case of perjury. Next day, Costello came back to the courtroom looking ruffled, shrunken and malevolent. His throat was inflamed, the television lights bothered him, and he was in no condition to testify further, his lawyer declared. Mild-mannered but firm, Kefauver insisted he should try to answer a few questions. Rasped Costello: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function . . . With all due respect for the Senators-I have an awful lot of respect for them-I am not going to answer another question ... I am going...