Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...touched a question of tough professional pride. How old did you have to be to get into the Algoa Reformatory near Jefferson City, a place for even tougher guys? As the words grew angrier, one of the boys grabbed Rolland Barton, 15, from behind, crooked one arm around his neck and held on for ten minutes. When the body grew limp, he and the third boy tossed it on the bunk, tore strips from a blanket and cinched them around their victim's neck to finish the job. In a final fury they showered blows on the unconscious body...
...Raskob, then Democratic National chairman, in an effort to rebuild the party. A master of the sly phrase and rankling innuendo, he painted the Republicans as inept, as the party of privilege, of the "corporation lawyer" and the rich industrialist. He hung the depression around Hoover's neck and kept it there. He made a mockery of Hoover's optimism and never let the country forget Hoover's theme that prosperity was just around the corner. He never let succeeding G.O.P. candidates forget Hoover's prediction that "grass will grow in the streets" if the Democrats...
After-Hours. Caught neck-deep among Hollywood's peculiar blessings and obligations, Peck likes being regarded as a good actor. But he takes little pleasure in his fame, and none, apparently, in the standing, prestige or power he might have. He admits to some laziness, but adds, with proper self-respect: "I can be conscientious as hell under pressure...
...Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...