Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Certainly," and the Vagabond cleared his throat. "Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in this country. It was founded in 1636 for the training of clergymen...
...abroad quantities of Japan's small store of gold. Internally the Government launched 200,000,000 yen of deficit bonds, announced it would be necessary "to readjust [private] investment capital," presumably a euphemism for a capital levy. The Knife of War was about to slit China's throat but it was also about to slit Japan's purse...
...battle of ghosts-mud and blood-smeared ghosts struggling hand-to-hand in a dripping fog. Legionnaires crouched and climbed from rock to rock. One straightened up and plunged face down, with a bullet through his throat. Another with a broken leg tried to hop to safety, but slid off into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties, but the Rightists pressed forward, groping almost to the muzzles of the Asturians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour. Then the Asturians fell...
...divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors. Through the months of their captivity in Aqsu, he subtly goaded Serafimov to madness, yet achieved his own spiritual tranquillity at the moment Serafimov's fingers closed around his throat...
...Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell...