Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what I have said made Mr. Nelson mad enough to clear out the deadwood, my head is a cheap price to pay for it. I would gladly give what little neck I have left to see the boss up to his knees in splinters and still swinging...
...experience. They are coached by a faculty of first-desk Boston Symphony players, but when they play they are on their own. Three hours a day, six days a week, with a few evening hours thrown in, they rehearse under the maestro himself, a genial martinet in an open-neck shirt, slacks and sport shoes, who expects miracles and often gets them...
...Begins: Washington wire from Wilmott Ragsdale at the State Department, 1 p.m.-Japanese envoys asked for an appointment with Hull. . . . The book ends, 202 pages later, with the scene of Congress declaring war: "There were no tears. . . . There was no prayerful silence. . . . It was just the American Congress, its neck bowed, its back arched, and itself buckled down to the job of giving 'blood, sweat and tears' in any volume necessary to defeat the most audacious attack of the aggressors...
...words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened neck, he was taken in the commissioner's car to Victoria station. "Nice old fellow, that Gandhi," the commissioner said. The train chuffed on to Poona. There the Mahatma was imprisoned in the rambling stone "bungalow" of the rich Aga Khan...
...settled purpose. Inside their huge Pandal electric fans hummed. They had the unprecedented extravagance to provide chairs for everyone. They opened their meeting with terrific trumpet blasts. A band played Marching Through Georgia. Crowds surged on Gandhi when he arrived in his loincloth, a narrow white scarf around his neck. Twice he lost his glasses. Each time his admirers tried to put them back on for him. Momentarily forgetting nonviolence, he swung his fists to ward off the overzealous. Inside the Pandal, Gandhi spoke, cross-legged from a couch, into a microphone. A friend explained: "He has some difficulty because...