Until a man who is believed to be selling loose cigarettes has the life strangled out of him in a police chokehold.
And slowly, without knowing it, every spark of life has slowly been strangled out of the city.
It's hypocritical, to say the least, for someone to fight tooth and nail against a woman's right to choose -- under the idea they are protecting "life" -- while standing by as "life" is slashed, mutilated, burned, raped, mangled, hacked, and strangled out of women and girls in every corner of the planet.
In natural areas it can strangle out native species and should be controlled, but in concrete deserts surely we should praise its tenacity and the rich nectars it provides to urban insects.
Ultimately, we hope that tagging schemes provide teachers with easy ways to find rich content and not just a way for large incumbent vendors to strangle out smaller companies.
People crying those deep tears, those horrible tears – tears so ceaseless there's no time to breathe, tears that don't so much stream as pool, crying like you can't inhale, you can only strangle out something akin to a hiccup – while Jeremy leans in and goes, "Now you go home, and – listen to me – you go and you love that child".
In one case, Lisa Moller, 35, from Barry in Wales, hanged herself just a few hours after police were called twice to her house by a concerned neighbor who heard Moller shouting to her partner Joseph Ashenhurst, "You strangled me, get out, get out".
When told that some would not mind strangling her out in the open, she leaned back and laughed.
He argues that he is entitled to be busy and that he is "not going to allow" the courts or prosecutors to "strangle" him out of business.
IN A LONELY PLACE (Feminist Press, paper, $14.95), a superb specimen of noir suspense by Dorothy B. Hughes, published in 1947, observes pulp traditions of the postwar period with its dark themes, clipped pace, sexually charged atmosphere and disturbing plot about a serial killer who is stalking the Los Angeles coast, strangling women out alone at night.
He drugged her with the sedative Amitriptyline, strangled her, carried out a serious sex attack and murdered her.
