Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially busy on rainy days, Mondays, and days after holidays. Observed the New York Daily News: "The telephone people aren't telling which sex gets on a busy wire and talks for half-hour stretches about two-egg cakes and such things. We're not sticking our neck out, either. . . . We've just got an epidemic of telephonitis on our hands and . . . we doubt if it'll ever be cured...
...Time to Be III. In a theater where disease inflicted ten times as many casualties as the enemy, "Old Tu'key Neck," as he called himself, seemed immune. His liver was ailing, but he went on walking. He refused to be hospitalized: "I'm fighting a war and I can't spare the time...
Owning up to the fact that it had been a bad boy, the War Assets Administration last week grabbed itself by the scruff of the neck, and shook itself violently. It shook out 32 out of 89 key employes in one of its major sales divisions and canceled 32 contracts to sell goods at a commission of 10% plus sales costs. In the future, said WAA, agents would get only a fixed fee (30 to 35%) and pay their own costs. One reason: an agent had charged WAA several thousands of dollars for storage costs on a $14 sale...
...Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Eleanor Medsker, a middle-aged grandmother, penned an outraged letter to CPA: "How would you like to wear trousers so short that they come halfway to your neck? On account of you, I haven't been able to buy a dress long enough to come below my knees since the war started. I'm no bobbysoxer. ... I bought a suit that fits perfectly except that I can't sit down without hiking the skirt...
...belonging" the three streets are named Eliot, Dunster, and Lowell. The whole of the Village is contained within a looping road that is at once the perimeter and the only means of getting in or out; a gate, guarded by a man with a gun, stands athwart the neck of this loop...