Word: throatedly
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From long experience, Miss Ryerson maintains that she can recognize almost any TIME employee by looking at his throat. Her work, of course, is mainly preventive medicine and, although she says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband...
...funds sufficient to keep America's views on the air, if only for a few minutes a day. It would mean taking a stand that is unpopular yet necessary, lest the world read more than a casual symbolism into the fact that America's radio voice has had its throat...
...hands of one of the partners were already at K.'s throat, while the other thrust the knife into his heart and turned it there twice. With failing eyes K. could still see the two of them, cheek leaning against cheek, immediately before his face, watching the final act. 'Like a dog!' he said...
...large black object . . . crawl . . . over the foot of the bed, and swiftly spread itself up to [my daughter's] throat, where it swelled, in a moment, into a great palpitating mass...
...Notting Hill Mystery, written by an unknown disciple of Wilkie Collins, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, in which a deadly vampire lady passes her days snugly in a blood-filled coffin, her nights with her pearly-white incisors sunk gently into a sleeping victim's throat...