Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing but a bloody schmozzle," growled a British union leader as he wiped his sweating neck and swigged a pint of beer. "A damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
Last week, Boston's sportwriters were eating crow for all the unkind things they had said about Marse Joe. The Sox were battling it out for the American League lead, neck & neck with the Philadelphia A's, the Yankees and the Indians...
...killed first, the one with his neck almost cut off, turned...
Enough's Enough. In Milwaukee, police asked James Beard to explain how he came to be stalking down the street with a telephone cord and receiver hanging around his neck, learned that Beard had been given one wrong number too many...
...brought down the foremost runner. The last man then turned and filled the valley with the blood-tingling screams of the terrorists as he wildly emptied his Luger in our direction. Two detectives, firing at close range, pumped 15 shots into him. His head was nearly severed from his neck when he fell...