Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Neck...
...Good Turn In Los Angeles, friends of Charley Williams, who had a nosebleed, rushed him to a hospital with a tourniquet tight around his neck to keep him from bleeding to death...
...Tools For Killing. Today I spoke with one wounded infantryman from Milwaukee. "I never knew there were so many goddam machine guns in all the world," he said. These pockets cannot be bypassed because of the neck-deep swamps and sucking mud; they must be assaulted, at whatever cost, and destroyed one by one. The artillery is helping, including American 105-mm. howitzers which were flown into action. But many of the Japanese foxholes are too deep and too cleverly contrived to be wiped out even by the terrific barrages which pour in tons of high explosives each day & night...
Going into the second half with but a three-point lead, the JV's kept neck and neck with the five from Providence, and led until midway in the last period. But a brace of closing shots provided the margin of victory for the visitors, and gave the home quintet its second two point defeat in five days...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...