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...creates] the sort of sensation that goes from the nape of your neck to the base of your spine when Yehudi Menuhin reaches the theme in the Bartok concerto. You know what I mean...
...lowest possible degree of vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen to take you by the seat of your britches and the nape of your neck and throw you outside the city limits." At week's end Kasper, in the county jail on charges of incitement to riot, and unable to raise $2,500 bond, was confronted by new testimony, relayed by the FBI, linking him to the dynamite bombing...
...judge from the attachments for the muscles of the nape of his neck, Saldanha man must have walked with a pronounced stoop. He had somewhat less room for brain than Neanderthal man, who is generally considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make and use stone tools. Crude hand axes were found in the blow-out among the bones. Since many anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking mammal," Saldanha will have to be recognized as a genuine, if uncouth...
...pulled back the cover, and Teply, with a shock, recognized the pajama-clad corpse of Dr. Masaryk. "I ordered one of the policemen to open the pajamas, and noticed all over the body traces of blows and scratches that appeared to be marks of violence. I saw in the nape of the neck the mark of a wound, probably made by a projectile of 7.65-mm. caliber. I thought: 'This is infamous, a bestial assassination...
...some sentence that had pleased them, or that had conformed with the pattern I had so often seen in the newspapers. And if I were to stop and plead fatigue, or poor memory, or ask to rest-the wall again, and the slaps, and the blows in the nape [of the neck]. And I remembered I would come up gasping and talk and talk and feel utterly broken...