Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped pay for his art collection with Rumbin Galleries. Tarkington on writing: "A very painful job-much worse than having measles...
...tinged, no reflection showed in Harry Truman's face. Next day at his press conference a newsman asked for comment on gloomy newspaper views of U.S. policy in Europe. The President smiled. Hindsight is a great thing, he cracked. What about the coal crisis? The President kept his neck in. He would cross each bridge as he came to it, he said...
...stretch, it looked like the 'Kentucky Derby all over again. Assault, the clubfooted chestnut that ran away with the Kentucky Derby, was three lengths outin front. Then Elizabeth Arden Graham's slow-starting Lord Boswell came charging up. At the finish, Assault, obviously tiring, was just a neck ahead-enough to earn the $99,120 first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy, Bold Venture, won the Kentucky Derby...
...house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak eyes, and contracted "a tubercular swelling" on his neck. With his "tattered clothes and broken boots," he looked like "a ragamuffin . . . a shuddering sight for Gaelic gods...
...with a single length separating first and last shells, the J.V. race supplied the finish-line audience on the West Boston Bridge with a dramatic close. Princeton held a low, easy stroke and the lead for the whole distance to win in 10:1.6, while the Crimson pulled a neck-and-neck contest out for a final ten-feet margin...