Her memory also made the famously ice-cold Belichick choke up in a radio interview.

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Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono said the idea was "so beautiful, it made me choke up".

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"This day, Alice can rest, " the widower said, then began to choke up.

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She began to choke up and cry.

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Reading his own words seemed to make him angrier and angrier, and as he started talking about the troubles young soldiers are having returning from the war what Murtha called "battle fatigue" and the rising cost of their health care, he began to choke up.

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That, in turn, could force up interest rates and choke off growth.

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During previous booms in commodity prices, as in the 1980s, central banks jacked up interest rates in order to choke off demand and so stifle inflation.

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The DEA is heading up a new strike force focusing on what Riley calls "choke points": where the drugs and money change hands between the cartel operatives and Chicago gangs.

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But what happens is that as the gestures pile up, or more and more objects are being manipulated simultaneously, the rendering engines choke and the smoothness of the movement pauses or breaks altogether.

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