Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the 79th Congress waded neck deep in the muck of problems deposited by war & peace. As a Congress it was no better or worse than most U.S. Congresses. The people might have hoped that its representatives would rise to a unique and critical occasion. That they did no better than they did-or no worse -should have surprised no one. They were, after all, representative of the people, and the people themselves were not yet steadied to the onslaught of peace...
...Peterson, pinch-hitting for Seymour Croft, hit a slow roller to third, but Bill "Neck" Tighe threw the ball away allowing Hubbell to score. Bill Harford singled driving in Hamlen from third, and sending Peterson to third...
When Assault romped home in the Kentucky Derby at 8-to-1, the smart horse players said, "Wait for the Preakness." In the Preakness, Assault beat Elizabeth Arden's Lord Boswell by just a neck. In the Belmont Stakes, last of horse racing's Big Three for three-year-olds, great gobs of smart money again went on Lord Boswell he finished fifth, 5½ lengths behind Winner Assault...
...sleek greyhounds, Ballymack Border and Rossbane Dasher, were running neck & neck down the stretch. Suddenly Ballymack Border did what tiring dogs often do: he turned on his challenger, knocked him out of the race. The favorite, Rossmir Biddy, breezed past them both...
...London last week, Interpreter Joe Breen's good humor was holding up. "The difference between me and most people in Hollywood," he said, "is that I know I am a pain in the neck." But the British press-ignoring the fact that British movie men had invited him over-attacked him as a bluenose. The New Statesman and Nation complained...