Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
...strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch, and one rainy day he grumbled to Mistress Higons: "It is 'long of the King that this weather is so troublous and unstable...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
...they stuck out their neck and asked for suggestions. Out of the developing minds of tomorrow's Mellons and Morgans came a trio of ideas. Hard Times. Silver Dollar, Das Kapital. Where is the bear of Yesteryear...
...spite of people who think professors ought to be impartial, I like to stick my neck out," said William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, as he gave his support to the aims of the "Save O.P.A." rally Wednesday noon, finally forced to meet at Sanders Theater...