Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the effect of President Truman's egregious action on foreign policy (see above), he was still head of the Democratic Party, still neck-deep in the campaign to keep Democratic control of Congress. His calling list last week was jammed with the names of visiting politicos bringing bulletins from the field, comparing notes, asking for advice and help from the President...
...various times, his ad campaigns had the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, American Medical Association and the New York Times on his neck. Hill squelched lesser critics handily: "Why should I justify [my copy]? It has paid...
...hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around his neck and exhibiting an impersonal patch of leg meat, hers...
...good on the field. There were times when the indignant citizens of St. Louis were convinced that calm little Eddie Dyer, in his first year as the Cards' manager, ought to go back to Texas and the oil business. Last week, Eddie Dyer's Cards, after racing neck & neck with the Brooklyn Dodgers, pulled into a 2½-game lead and all was right with Eddie Dyer's world...
...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...