Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...
...harassed Raj, the action was belatedly graceful and politically wise. For the Congress it was a great moral victory. Bhansali drank a glass of msambi juice to break his fast. Crowds of Hindus garlanded his gaunt neck with flowers...
Fortnight ago the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury set a new record. During the Civil War the Memphis Commercial Appeal scurried to Grenada, Miss., Atlanta and Columbus, Ga. with Union armies breathing down its inky neck. During 1936 floods Pittsburgh papers left their soaked plants, took up stance in neighboring cities. But the Post & Mercury last week appeared in Manhattan, 10,000 miles away from home base...
...newspaperman in the film (Robert Young) meets Margaret when she arrives at a London refuge for orphaned children. She stands stiffly, a strange little figure with a tall stocking cap, the shell of a magnesium (incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes with her palms. The lady in charge (Fay Bainter) suggests that she may cry if she wishes. Margaret: "You won't smack me if I beller?" "No." Margaret begins to sob, finally relieves her pent-up tension and fears in wild, convulsing wails...
Then Sergei found that his wife Natasha was being kept nude in a Nazi soldier's brothel. He and Fyodor rushed the brothel, were stopped by a sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...