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Word: neck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borie, holed by ramming the sub, was mortally wounded. Her engine-room crew had worked neck-deep in water to keep her going during the fight. They had used cigaret-lighter fluid to keep the auxiliary radio engine going. The next night the crew was ordered off the ship. Twenty-seven crewmen lost their lives in the freezing North Atlantic. Friendly shells sank the Borie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Scratch the Pigboats | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Burly Mike Kennedy, his jowls buried deep in the folds of his great bull neck, listened to the results by radio, like any other citizen. Sitting in the midst of the fitful, strained conversation, he had plenty of time to reflect on the newest scandal-his alleged hand-in-glove scheming with Racketeer Frank Costello (see p. 22)-which had driven the final nail in Tammany's coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Tammany Wake | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...were celebrities. Cagney and Miss Lawrence answered no. Said Benchley: "When I started out on what you call my 'career' I weighed 143 Ib. and had never had an intoxicating drink. I always wore a 'Belmont' 14½ collar and did exercises to develop my neck. You ask me if I feel different today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...sing, she doesn't dance, she doesn't even act--she merely parades around displaying her God-given equipment. She does get old eventually, in keeping with the so-called plot, but, by a stroke of Holly woodian genius, her senility is strictly limited to the area above the neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

Royalty Ras Imru, Haile Selassie's first cousin and Ethiopia's hardest-fighting chieftain until the Italians captured him in 1936, headed home after nearly seven years' detention in Calabria. With him went his retinue of 16 (including a woman whose neck was tattooed blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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