Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose of triple-strength Benzedrine. They got a lift from a Gallup poll. It showed a Tory gain and a Labor loss in public popularity in the last year; they were now neck & neck, and if an election were held this week it might be either's neck. Moreover, the street meetings semed to be going well. Tories ran into good-natured heckling, but the bitterness many a Conservative candidate experienced in the election campaigns two years ago was missing...
...Craned Neck. In London next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with...
Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...
House Republicans sternly laid about them with their economy ax. Last week they worked over Harry Truman's budget for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments. Only one neck was spared-J. Edgar Hoover...
...hearers often get the feeling that his breathless brays are coming straight from the horse's mouth. Last week he described the end of the Preakness like this: "AND it's Jet Pilot in the lead by a head. . . . AND it's Jet Pilot by a neck. . . . It's Jet Pilot by half a length. ... Jet Pilot by a length . . . Jet Pilot!" A moment later, through the roar of the crowd was heard a shattered mutter: "What am I talking about?" Then solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a terrific mistake ... I was looking...