Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Chicago Boss McCormick said a mouthful on politics. He leaned back, coatless and shirt open at the neck, gave his word on the 1948 presidential lineup. Green: "Needs to be better known. Maybe a compromise candidate. I'm not backing him." Taft: "The best candidate. He's got a great name and he's managed to eliminate most of the criticism against him." Eisenhower: "I have a great interest in him." MacArthur: "Too old to be President." Warren: "Too far west-the East can't see past Ohio." Bricker: "Out because...
...hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...
...hole. The Empress sank with 1,024 passengers. Congratulating himself on not having repeated the captain's mistake, Dr. Miller tied off the vein, hauled the carotid artery out of the way and pulled out the stick, which ran from the boy's jaw down through his neck and chest to the fourth...
...game in 1916. Cumberland's fullback and captain, George Allen himself, made the best run of the game for his hard pressed side: "I only lost six yards." He would have made one beautiful punt if his own center had not blocked it with the back of his neck. George recalls: "I once dropped the ball and yelled at another fellow: 'Pick it up.' He yelled back at me, 'Pick it up yourself, you dropped it.'" The score: Tech, 220; Cumberland...
...Churchill's remarks in the British press. It was noteworthy that no hurrahs at all were forthcoming from the Zionists; their silence contradicted vociferous but unofficial demands that Britain "quit Palestine." They know that if Britain got out of Palestine the Arabs would be on Zion's neck...