Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real significance of Madagascar is that its lee shore shelters the 250-mile wide, heavily-trafficked Mozambique Channel, which, if the island were in Jap hands, would seem to Allied shipping like the neck of a bottle of poison. From the island the Japanese could play hob with Allied shipping bound either for Suez or India. But for once the Jap had been beaten to the punch...
Until these are put in effect, OPA's blanket ceiling (effective next week) would be a frost. But with or without them, it was sure to be a terrific pain in the neck to 1,800,000 retailers scattered throughout...
...appear. His reasons: 1) the bills in question (to curb labor racketeers) were not concerned with the Justice Department; 2) Mr. Arnold had "heretofore expressed himself" on the matter of labor racketeering and his views were well known. In brief, Mr. Biddle hauled Mr. Arnold off labor's neck...
People wondered. Mr. Biddle never seems to haul Thurman Arnold off capital's neck -although Arnold has many times "expressed" himself about the nation's great corporations...
Leading by a quarter of a length until the last twenty strokes, the other Freshman lightweight boat, stroked by Pete Hodges, which has been neck and neck with Filley's shell all season, didn't seem to have the last minute drive, and Filley's boat surged ahead to win the race...